wear-os-samples VS PixelMinimalWatchFace

Compare wear-os-samples vs PixelMinimalWatchFace and see what are their differences.

wear-os-samples

Multiple samples showing best practices in app and watch face development on Wear OS. (by android)

PixelMinimalWatchFace

WearOS minimal Watch Face, battery efficient, with complications support (by benoitletondor)
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wear-os-samples PixelMinimalWatchFace
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1,010 160
4.4% -
9.4 7.0
6 days ago about 1 year ago
Kotlin Kotlin
Apache License 2.0 Apache License 2.0
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wear-os-samples

Posts with mentions or reviews of wear-os-samples. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-04-26.
  • tide/surf app for watch
    3 projects | /r/PixelWatch | 26 Apr 2023
    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
  • Wear OS complication hell... How do you use them?
    2 projects | /r/WearOSDeveloper | 14 Nov 2022
    So I'm looking for good sources on how to use the new jetpack apis. So far I only found this sample project.
  • The state of watch face development on Samsung watches
    2 projects | /r/WearOS | 13 Feb 2022
    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

PixelMinimalWatchFace

Posts with mentions or reviews of PixelMinimalWatchFace. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-30.
  • FOSS watch faces with complications for Google Pixel watch?
    3 projects | /r/WearOS | 30 Nov 2023
    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.
  • The state of watch face development on Samsung watches
    2 projects | /r/WearOS | 13 Feb 2022
    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.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing wear-os-samples and PixelMinimalWatchFace you can also consider the following projects:

camera-samples - Multiple samples showing the best practices in camera APIs on Android.

apps-script-samples - Apps Script samples for Google Workspace products.

golang-samples - Sample apps and code written for Google Cloud in the Go programming language.

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awesome-react - A collection of awesome things regarding React ecosystem

android - :iphone: Home Assistant Companion for Android

architecture-samples - A collection of samples to discuss and showcase different architectural tools and patterns for Android apps.

PixelMinimalWatchFace - WearOS minimalist Watch Face, battery efficient, with complications support

accompanist - A collection of extension libraries for Jetpack Compose