Extend Previous/Next track to Android Wear notification
Enabling a permanent notification also pushes a notification to Android Wear with album art, which is fantastic. But regardless of what buttons are set to be shown on the regular notification, the options available on Android Wear are Play/pause on the main card (working) and volume up/down on the second page (not working). Would it be possible to add previous/next track to the second page?
Paul “ED” Edworthy
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Hi there! I don’t have an Android Wear, so I have no idea how that stuff works. If you could explain it very thorough, I may have a chance, otherwise, I’ll just have to wait until I buy an Android Wear (if I ever do).
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Michael Jones
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I know this was put up a long time ago! My experience with the Android Wear watch that I just got was that when I turn on the lock screen notifications, I get controls on my watch automatically. They look like this (assuming this forum doesn't strip out my URL): https://www.dropbox.com/s/osj4v5qkmm7v8sv/screen%20%281%29.png?dl=0
The forward and back controls work, and when I click the pause button it changes into the play triangle - but it doesn't pause anything. The volume controller at the bottom doesn't seem to do anything either.
With two requests in five years I'm thinking this is probably a low priority! But I think there is an SDK that can be downloaded to work with Android Wear stuff, even if you don't actually have the hardware.
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Alright, thank you! I'll look into it.
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Paul “ED” Edworthy
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Hi Erlend, thanks for responding, your work on this app is great and no other MediaMonkey remote comes close. I'll help explain as best I can, but I'm a designer, not a developer, so apologies if it's not technical enough.
How I understand it, implementing Android Wear (AW) support is supposed to be relatively easy, referencing an api here and there to pass over a value/action and AW does the rest.
From the users perspective, AW mirrors the Notification Panel that you find on an Android device. Every notification that pops up, will also be displayed on an AW device (unless blocked by the user). I'm guessing that since your app is a media controller, you must declare it as such in order for the play/pause features to work on the interactive notification. AW recognises this and creates an appropriate visual notification/card to display on the watch.
In general, each notification card can be swiped up or down to display the next or previous card, and each card can be tapped for a specific function. In this case, it shows the currently playing song and when tapped, it pauses/plays the song.
From there, each notification can be swiped to the right to dismiss it, (unless it's a perminent notification). If you swipe to the left, you can access additional functions, the last always being "Open on phone" and "Block app". These additional functions can come in several forms, like a bit of information that when tapped can alternate extra information, (e.g. daily steps and weekly steps, this could be used for lyrics and song info).
The standard format for a media player however is that the screen is split into 4 quaters (imagine an "X") and each quarter is a button. Top = volume up, bottom = volume down, left = previous track, right = next track. With your app, most of this is already done, except the buttons don't do anything, so it may be as simple as assigning the correct action to the correct button.
Let me know if you need anything else.
