wear-os-samples VS PixelMinimalWatchFace

Using DataLayer to transfer data from phone to your watch app. Check here wear-os-samples/DataLayer

Here is a really good repo by Google filled with WearOS sample projects. Helped me a lot with setting up communication between watch and phone. This is also a good starting point to understanding how these apps work. https://github.com/android/wear-os-samples

There are plenty of open source watchfaces out there. Check out this github repo by Google. It contains best practice examples all around wear os including watchfaces.

So I'm looking for good sources on how to use the new jetpack apis. So far I only found this sample project.

I think for Android based smartwatch, you could read something here

Main documentation about how to make watch faces under Wear OS seems to be the WatchFaceKotlin example. This example contains borders around complications. Some installed watch faces don't have borders around complications.

I converted my codebase to Kotlin a few years ago, but I am struggling to move to new wear libraries. There is so much work to do, because Google, in their immense wisdom, decided to change everything. And don't even get me started about the Decomposition API (option to add second hand in ambient mode). I opened this issue almost a year ago and got no answer. https://github.com/android/wear-os-samples/issues/85

Tried this sample from Google: https://github.com/android/wear-os-samples/tree/main/WatchFaceKotlin

Minimal Watch Faces on Play Store by "Battery Stats Saver" aka BenoitleTondor appears to be missing from Github. I found a fork but afaict it has not been updated in three years.

Actually, the AOD protection should be built-in by the system that moves the clock around to avoid burn-in, and all that watch face could do is to lit as less pixel as possible. However this feature may not be available on gw4, as mentioned here on the github page of pixel minimal watch face

Just take a look at the CompatHelper.kt class in the PixelMinimalWatchface project. This horrible code is what you need to do to make your watch face work on Samsung watches. Just to be clear, u/benoitletondor is doing an amazing job supporting his watch face, but that's not what he or any other dev should be spending their time doing.

Check out those screenshots of music icon overlap , that same issue is in your watch face. The bottom icons issue https://github.com/benoitletondor/PixelMinimalWatchFace/issues/31

I'm using Pixel Minimal Watch Face at the moment and there are complications in ambient mode (and battery drain is "normal"). The source code is available here: https://github.com/benoitletondor/PixelMinimalWatchFace

check this commit: https://github.com/benoitletondor/PixelMinimalWatchFace/commit/41000b6592fcf7042fe216f41f190bf41664d146

Of course, source code is still 100% available: https://github.com/benoitletondor/PixelMinimalWatchFace