Prompting the installation for your Wear OS companion app from your Android app

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The following function is a example on how to use a RemoteActivityHelper to trigger connected Wear OS devices to open the Play Store at a desired package. This allows both the app author to increase exposure to their companion app but also allow the user to more easily access the companion applications.

Transcribable for Android available now for early access

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We have recently released an early access speech to text application titled Transcribable; it supports the ability capture voice notes as text and share your transcriptions with other applications. Transcribable supports the conversion of speech to text using your Android device or Wear OS device. The device application collates your transcriptions to a file allowing…

Wear OS: Custom Ringtones using ADB

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I’m really enjoying my TicWatch Pro 2020 Wear OS device; my only criticism which I noticed almost immediately was; that I am unable to easily provide a custom ringtone. By easily I mean there is no built-in method to define a custom ringtone.