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Android EmbeddedApp Sample

This simple app demonstrates how to embed a wearable app into a phone app.

Introduction

Wearable apps can be installed directly onto Android Wear devices during development, using either a direct ADB connection or ADB-over-Bluetooth. However, when releasing your app to end users, you must package your wearable APK inside of a traditional APK for distribution via a paired phone.

When end users install this APK onto their phone, the wearable APK will be automatically detected, extracted, and pushed to their any paired wearable devices.

This sample demonstrates how to properly package a wearable app for release in this manner. The wearable app is inside the Wearable directory, and the phone app (which will be used as a container for distribution) is the Application directory. There is nothing special about these apps, other than the wearApp dependency in the (host) phone app's build.gradle file:

dependencies {
    compile 'com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:6.5.+'
    wearApp project(':Wearable')
}

This dependency will automatically package the wearable APK during a release build (e.g. using the “Build > Generate Signed APK...” command in Android Studio). Note that this packaging is not performed for debug builds for performance reasons. During development, your wearable and phone apps must still be pushed individually to their respective devices using an ADB connection.

Pre-requisites

  • Android SDK v21
  • Android Build Tools v21.1.1
  • Android Support Repository

Screenshots

Getting Started

This sample uses the Gradle build system. To build this project, use the “gradlew build” command or use “Import Project” in Android Studio.

Support

If you've found an error in this sample, please file an issue: https://github.com/googlesamples/android-EmbeddedApp

Patches are encouraged, and may be submitted by forking this project and submitting a pull request through GitHub. Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.

License

Copyright 2014 The Android Open Source Project, Inc.

Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the “License”); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an “AS IS” BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.