Flutter & Wear OS
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Hello there 👋
My name is
Renan Araújo
I live in Porto,
OSS Contributor for Blue Fire & OSS Engineer at Very Good Ventures,
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Trying out something di erent
Making a Wear OS game
Challenged myself in one weekend, make a complete Wear OS game.
Requirements:
- Has to feel like it was made for the watch
- Has to perform well
- Don’t kill the battery
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Summary
We gonna talk about:
- What is exactly Wear OS and what means making an app for it
- What should we expect in terms of hardware
- Running Flutter on it
- Helpful Flutter resources
- Going to the store
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Part 1
Wear OS
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Wear OS
What exactly is that:
Wear OS is a version of Android, specific for Smartwatches
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Developing for smartwatches
Running apps in peoples wrists
Running a mobile application UI on a smartwatch is not a good idea.
Addressing some extra constraints can define the app usability
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Tiny displays
UIs for in between 1.24 and 1.4 inches
Make each view self-containing
Scrollable views should be used strictly when
necessary and obvious
Be careful with clickable areas of buttons
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One finger UI
🚫 multi-touch gestures
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Spare the battery
Don’t kill the
battery
Limited size = limited battery
Go easy on animations and be mindful of the CPU
and memory consumption.
Use dark mode.
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Spare the battery
Display shapes
Be prepared for Squared, circular, and even
Squircular displays
Blend with the display edges
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Spare the battery
Standalone apps
Wear OS apps can run alongside a companion
smartphone App or be totally independent
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Part 2
Hardware interface
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More than the touch screen
Inputs may vary
- Touch screen
- Rotary input
- Physical buttons
- Sensors
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Rotary input can be a Physical bezel, a crown or a virtual bezel
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Part 3
Running Flutter on it
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It is not o icial but it totally works…
Wear OS support on Flutter
- There is no o icial support (from the Flutter team). E orts in this area
are all from the community
- Most Android plugins should work fine on WearOS
- Specific WearOS APIs (such as Health services) are callable via Method
calls
- No Wear-specific API baked into the Framework
- Uses the “android” directory in the app project
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Live code time…
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Part 4
Useful resources
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Useful packages
“wear” by the Flutter community: Helps to detect
ambient mode changes and the shape of the display.
“wearable_rotary” by the Tizen team: Handles rotary
input events
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Very good
template
very_good create flutter_app -t wear
Kickstart a Flutter app ready for Wear OS in seconds
Using the very good CLI:
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Very good
template
very_good create flutter_app -t wear
Kickstart a Flutter app ready for Wear OS in seconds
Using the very good CLI:
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Part 5
Going to the store
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Play Store
Deploying a Wear OS app can be tricky
- Must mention “Wear OS” on their pages, in the description, and in the
title.
- It is necessary screenshots on multiple screen shapes and sizes
- Screenshots should contain the app interface only
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Play Store
Approval phases in the first deploy
Wear OS apps go through two approval phases: The standard one and the
Wear OS specific.
The second approval may take some days.
To start the second approval, go to
Console > Advanced settings > Form factors > Add “Wear OS”
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Thank you
@reNotANumber
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