How to open Google Play from the phone remotely on the watch (Wear OS)

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What is the correct way to remotely open Google Play from the phone on the watch (Wear OS)? I am trying this:

Intent intentOnWatch = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)
        .addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE)
        .setData(Uri.parse("https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=\" + getPackageName()"));

RemoteIntent.startRemoteActivity(getApplicationContext(), intentOnWatch, null, null);

But nothing happens.

The last parameter is the nodeId. I left it as zero because the documentation says :

nodeId String: Wear OS node id for the device where the activity should be started. If null, and the current device is a watch, the activity will start on the companion phone device. Otherwise, the activity will start on all connected watch devices.

Source: https://developer.android.com/reference/com/google/android/wearable/intent/RemoteIntent#startremoteactivity

I could determine the nodeId, but it seems difficult to do. Plus in this case, starting the activity on all connected watch devices would be fine.

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2 Answers

This example (sorry it's Kotlin) should work


            val remoteActivityHelper =
                RemoteActivityHelper(application, Dispatchers.IO.asExecutor())

            val nodes = Wearable.getNodeClient(application).connectedNodes.await()
            val nodeId = nodes.firstOrNull { it.displayName == "XXX" }?.id

            if (nodeId == null) {
                Toast.makeText(application, "No connected wear watch", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show()
            } else {
                try {
                    remoteActivityHelper.startRemoteActivity(
                        Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)
                            .addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE)
                            .setData(
                                Uri.parse("https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/${programme.code}")
                            ),
                    ).await()
                } catch (e: Exception) {
                    toaster.showToast("Unable to open mobile app: ${e.message}")
                }
            }
        }

But the main thing in your example is that you are not checking the result of startRemoteActivity, it returns a ListenableFuture, so you could check for an error. In the example above, I'm using the .await() extension function which does the same thing.

There are more complete examples in https://github.com/android/wear-os-samples/blob/d18c489ff415aa0fbb25c260e3aacdf50f7716e3/WearVerifyRemoteApp/Application/src/main/java/com/example/android/wearable/wear/wearverifyremoteapp/MainMobileActivity.kt

I'm not sure about the exact implementation for Java, it's really messy with the Task and Future APIs mixed here. Maybe

        RemoteActivityHelper remoteActivityHelper = new RemoteActivityHelper(application, executor);

        NodeClient client = Wearable.getNodeClient(application);
        client.getConnectedNodes().addOnSuccessListener(nodes -> {
                if (nodes.size() > 0) {
                    String nodeId = nodes.get(0).getId();
                    ListenableFuture<Void> result = remoteActivityHelper.startRemoteActivity(
                            new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)
                                    .addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE)
                                    .setData(
                                            Uri.parse("https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/${programme.code}")
                                    )
                            , nodeId);
                    result.addListener(() -> {
                        try {
                            result.get();
                        } catch (Exception e) {
                            Toast.makeText(application, "Failed " + e, Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                        }
                    }, executor);
                } else {
                    Toast.makeText(application, "No connected wear watch", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
                }
        }).addOnFailureListener(failure -> {
            Toast.makeText(application, "Unable to open mobile app: ${e.message}", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT).show();
        });
user_15426670

I've been fighting with exatly the same problem last two days. Works for me the next code:


    Intent intent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW)
        .addCategory(Intent.CATEGORY_BROWSABLE)
        .setData(Uri.parse(PLAY_STORE_APP_URI));

    for (Node node : nodesWithoutApp) {
        RemoteActivityHelper remoteActivityHelper = 
            new RemoteActivityHelper(this, Executors.newSingleThreadExecutor());
        remoteActivityHelper.startRemoteActivity(intent, node.getId());
    }

It didn't work with RemoteIntent.startRemoteActivity for some reason.

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