Successfully sideloaded Android Wear app! (Post working apps here too!)

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Successfully sideloaded Android Wear app! (Post working apps here too!)

Post by iSasFTW » Tue Oct 11, 2016 4:24 pm

Hi! Today i successfully sideloaded an Android Wear app. Well, it's technically a modified version of an Android app, but you get the point.
I installed Flappy Bird!

Everything works just fine in the game except for leaderboards, which crashes, because it needs google play games.
I tried a few other apps as well, but most of them crashed on launch. Some of them worked just fine though!

Here's a video!

Here's how i did it.
viewtopic.php?f=21&t=146

And here's where i got the modified Flappy Bird from:
Click me! :)


If you find any cool apps that work, post them here! I'd like to test them!

Working apps so far:

  • Flappy Bird
  • Firefox (Needs keyboard app, cant type URL's without it.)
  • Minuum Wear Keyboard
  • Minecraft: Pocket Edition (works fine, some buttons hard to press because of circular screen. Turning to the right will try to escape the app back to the home screen)
  • ES File Explorer
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Re: Successfully sideloaded Android Wear app! (Post working apps here too!)

Post by LGSONE » Wed Oct 12, 2016 5:11 am

Very nice, thanks. Got in ant took a look around. Running some UBNT Unifi, gimp, Evernote, advanced IP scanner zenmap. Very interesting. Nice to see the advanced level capabilities and I'm wondering if this will negate the need for a Developer "dock" to do any mod's. XDA-Developers, game on.

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Post by iSasFTW » Wed Oct 12, 2016 2:04 pm

LGSONE wrote:Very nice, thanks. Got in ant took a look around. Running some UBNT Unifi, gimp, Evernote, advanced IP scanner zenmap. Very interesting. Nice to see the advanced level capabilities and I'm wondering if this will negate the need for a Developer "dock" to do any mod's. XDA-Developers, game on.

LGS


The developer dock would still be useful for file transfer, since the "ADB File managers" that i've tried don't really work.
Also, if you want me to add any apps to the list on the OP, lemme know :)
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Post by Acorn Eyes » Thu Oct 13, 2016 2:52 pm

Now I'm wondering what in the world the point of the developer dock was...
I pretty much wasted $20
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Re: Successfully sideloaded Android Wear app! (Post working apps here too!)

Post by printf_$0ftw4r3 » Thu Oct 13, 2016 3:06 pm

Acorn Eyes wrote:Now I'm wondering what in the world the point of the developer dock was...
I pretty much wasted $20




It should make file transferring a lot faster than doing adb on wifi or Bluetooth

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Post by trevorsky » Thu Oct 13, 2016 4:17 pm

Has anybody tried to sideload something like RunKeeper or MapMyRun?
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Post by iSasFTW » Fri Oct 14, 2016 4:50 am

trevorsky wrote:Has anybody tried to sideload something like RunKeeper or MapMyRun?

I can't find the Android Wear APK anywhere for it... Just the APK for the normal one. I mean, I can sideload that one too, but the AW would be better.
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Post by Acorn Eyes » Fri Oct 14, 2016 3:49 pm

Do android wear apk mirrors exist?

Very interested in installing invaders, heard its good.
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Post by iSasFTW » Fri Oct 14, 2016 6:31 pm

Acorn Eyes wrote:Do android wear apk mirrors exist?

Very interested in installing invaders, heard its good.

I've been looking for one and i haven't found one...
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Re: Successfully sideloaded Android Wear app! (Post working apps here too!)

Post by trevorsky » Sat Oct 15, 2016 3:33 pm

iSasFTW wrote:
trevorsky wrote:Has anybody tried to sideload something like RunKeeper or MapMyRun?

I can't find the Android Wear APK anywhere for it... Just the APK for the normal one. I mean, I can sideload that one too, but the AW would be better.


Are the Wear APK files stored inside the main app APK? I'm out of touch with how Wear development happens.
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