Hi!
In the last month we developed an app to send all the notifications that your phone receives to the smartwatch2.
It uses NotificationListener Service instead of Accesibility, so it only works on Android 4.3
Personally, Accesibility permissions are very compromising for an app that only send notifications to the watch, and that's why we started developing an app using the new NotificationListener Service.
The app will grab all the text of the notification (not only the tickerText) and will send it to your phone. You can also mute some applications (i.e. PowerToggles post notifications every few seconds) and set a period of time when no notifications will be sent to your phone (ie. During the night)
The link to the app is:
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We also have a Free version of the app. In this version you won't get all the text in the notification in your phone, you'll only get tickerText and you cannot set periods of "Do not disturb"
Hope you find it useful.
Hi!
I tried many different apps that bring notifications to the sony smartwatch. I'm currently using a HTC ONE with Sense 5.5/Kitkat 4.4.2 and most of the notification-apps have at least one of the following problems:
-) no smilies in whatsapp notifications
-) the sense mail app groups notifications as soon as there is more than one at a time, so if I get one email and 5min later another one, the notification on the phone and on the watch as well just shows me something like:
sender1
subject1
sender2
subject2
but I can not access the content of the emails... the content is only available as long as there just one new email... I don't know if the notification app can do anything about that, but it's something that bothers me
-) some apps don't allow me to exclude certain services like the htc backup service from notifying me on the watch because there is no dedicated app for that
-) some apps don't allow me to scroll through longer notifications
what about your app?
greetings
MJFox
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MJFox78 said:
Hi!
I tried many different apps that bring notifications to the sony smartwatch. I'm currently using a HTC ONE with Sense 5.5/Kitkat 4.4.2 and most of the notification-apps have at least one of the following problems:
-) no smilies in whatsapp notifications
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AFAIK, SW2 doesn't have Emoji in its charset, so any notification app won't show that emoji characters. We are working in a workaround transforming some emoji in an alternative which can be shown by the watch
MJFox78 said:
-) the sense mail app groups notifications as soon as there is more than one at a time, so if I get one email and 5min later another one, the notification on the phone and on the watch as well just shows me something like:
sender1
subject1
sender2
subject2
but I can not access the content of the emails... the content is only available as long as there just one new email... I don't know if the notification app can do anything about that, but it's something that bothers me
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Our app will send to the watch all the text contained in the notifications, instead of sending only the abbreviated text which is what some other apps do.
This was one of the motivation behind our app. We wanted to read the whole email in our watch so we developed SW2 Notifier
I cannot tell you about HTC sense mail app, but I can read full mail text in Gmail, Google's mail app and CloudMagic (which are the clients I use). I think that the situation will be the same in HTC sense clients, but I cannot tell you 100% how that will work.
MJFox78 said:
-) some apps don't allow me to exclude certain services like the htc backup service from notifying me on the watch because there is no dedicated app for that
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You can select which application notifies you in the watch and which not. You can leave htc backup service out, and it won't send any notification to your watch. So that's a yes, you can filter out any app you want.
MJFox78 said:
-) some apps don't allow me to scroll through longer notifications
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If I understood you well, yes you can scroll it long way down in the text of the notification. I.e, If you receive, let's say 10, messages in Hangouts, you can read them all.
MJFox78 said:
what about your app?
greetings
MJFox
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Hope it will make things clear now , If you have another question don't hesitate to ask!
Moreover, we are still adding new features to the app, so if you have any feature request, please tell us!
thanks!
thanks a lot for your detailed answer!
robjperez said:
AFAIK, SW2 doesn't have Emoji in its charset, so any notification app won't show that emoji characters. We are working in a workaround transforming some emoji in an alternative which can be shown by the watch
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there are 2 or 3 notifications app that show emojis in whatsapp notifications, so somehow it's possible
robjperez said:
Hope it will make things clear now , If you have another question don't hesitate to ask!
Moreover, we are still adding new features to the app, so if you have any feature request, please tell us!
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thanks a lot, I will try the free version of your app and give some feedback in this thread soon
greetings
MJFox
I just tried out your app and here's my feedback:
-) it would be great to have an option to define if the notifier should by default enable notifications for a new app-notification or not (as it is now you have to disable each app you don't want to get notifications from and you have to wait until you receive a notification from that app, so for a while you will have to open the settings over and over again to remove an app from the whitelist)
-) unfortunately I have the same problem as with all the other notification apps when I receive two or more notifications about new emails, attached you see two screenshots that show what I mean... as you can see the watch just shows me that I got two emails from "Kamil" and both have the subject "Test2" (if you scroll down on the watch you see just another line telling me that Kamil sent an email with the subject "Test2"), but I can not see the content of the emails (the content is only visible when I have just one email-notification)... this happens with the HTC-mail-client and with the default android-client as well... maybe the notifications-grouping is a sense feature?
greetings
MJFox
MJFox78 said:
I just tried out your app and here's my feedback:
-) it would be great to have an option to define if the notifier should by default enable notifications for a new app-notification or not (as it is now you have to disable each app you don't want to get notifications from and you have to wait until you receive a notification from that app, so for a while you will have to open the settings over and over again to remove an app from the whitelist)
-) unfortunately I have the same problem as with all the other notification apps when I receive two or more notifications about new emails, attached you see two screenshots that show what I mean... as you can see the watch just shows me that I got two emails from "Kamil" and both have the subject "Test2" (if you scroll down on the watch you see just another line telling me that Kamil sent an email with the subject "Test2"), but I can not see the content of the emails (the content is only visible when I have just one email-notification)... this happens with the HTC-mail-client and with the default android-client as well... maybe the notifications-grouping is a sense feature?
greetings
MJFox
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Thanks for trying the app and thanks for the feedback!!
We take note about that, we'll add that option to settings, in order to deactivate notifications by default.
About the other comment, did you try Free or Paid version?, In Free version we don't send all text of the notification to the watch only what Android calls "ticker text" which is the text you can read in the notification bar when you receive a notification.
In the PRO version, we send all the text which is contained in the notification (if you swipe down in the notification it will expand and will show extra text, and all that text is what we send to the watch).
I use Google's default mail client (have a nexus) and even though in the notification bar i cannot read whole text, in the watch I can read all the email.
I tried the paid version, it looks like as soon as there is more than one email notification the notification doesn't contain the email text anymore but just the sender and subject of each email
greetings
MJFox
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Hi,
I bought the PRO app yesterday, and from a quick test I am very satisfied with it. My biggest problem with others was that they couldn't show extended notifications of Hangouts, and this one does it nicely.
So, great job!
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Yup, I can avoid installing 2 or 3 apps by using this one. I am liking it!
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Congrats on the development and thanks for contributing to the SW2 community.
I am experimenting with the Pro version. Interesting the way you need to turn off notifications only after your phone/watch have a notification from that app or service (as opposed to WatchIt where you can do so when you first install WatchIt). I am running 4.3 on my phone, so I reckon I am the right target market.
Does seem to show more content on some notifications, but like others have also reported, if your phone gets a number of emails and notifications at the same time, SW2 Notifier only lists them out and provides the same amount of content in the list as WatchIt. Same is true with Google+.
Its a small $ investment and hopefully encourages people to develop for the platform, and its a nice looking extension. Don't know if it is enough of a difference to get someone who already has WatchIt to switch to SW2 Notifier. Since WatchIt is free I believe, and also works well with 4.3 phones (benefiting from same notification access), I think the SW2 Developers need to do something more to replace WatchIt.
btw, I am still trying to find the perfect notification extension. I use a few (WatchIt, Watchify, SW2 Notifier) to receive email, Gmail, and Google+, and the stock extensions to get Twitter, Facebook, Messaging, Slideshow, RSS, Missed Call, Music Player, Calendar Reminder. Seems the stock extensions that are dedicated to a type of notification still seem to work a bit better than the WatchIts and other broder notification extensions. Fortunately the SW2does not limit the number of extensions (apps) like Pebble does.
A suggestion would be good to select what notifications you want upfront as opposed to case by case as they come in.
Trying the free version. It's splendid so far. One "issue" I have is that I use Hangout and when a person sends me one message, its fine but if they send another afterwards and I didn't check the first, it comes up as 2 messages.
It would be nice if either my phone or watch could read the messages seperately but it doesn't which is a bummer. Other than that, its great!
ok, I've bought pro version, but it is as good as annoying. After 15 minutes of working I can have over 30 messages on my watch. Offcourse I've switched off non neccesary notifications, but for example for deezer I've got triple multipled notifications. Also really annoying are 'ghost notifications'. On my phone i;ve got 0 notifications, but this app shows me some empty notifications without any message. How can I rid of that?
Thanks all for using the app. It started as a personal need for us but it turns out as a useful app for everyone. We are carefuly reading the comments in order to improve the app in future versions.
There are some interesting things we'd like to comment.
Teglas said:
A suggestion would be good to select what notifications you want upfront as opposed to case by case as they come in.
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Some other users have requested this also. We'll do it for the next version.
cerberusxd said:
Trying the free version. It's splendid so far. One "issue" I have is that I use Hangout and when a person sends me one message, its fine but if they send another afterwards and I didn't check the first, it comes up as 2 messages.
It would be nice if either my phone or watch could read the messages seperately but it doesn't which is a bummer. Other than that, its great!
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In Free version, the text sent to the watch is shorter than the paid version, sorry. In the paid version you should read the whole hangouts notification including messages.
duchian said:
ok, I've bought pro version, but it is as good as annoying. After 15 minutes of working I can have over 30 messages on my watch. Offcourse I've switched off non neccesary notifications, but for example for deezer I've got triple multipled notifications. Also really annoying are 'ghost notifications'. On my phone i;ve got 0 notifications, but this app shows me some empty notifications without any message. How can I rid of that?
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Thanks for the feedback, we've been noticing something similar. Android notification system is a little bit messy. Sometimes, the notification service notifies the app saying, "hey there is a new notification posted", but it is not. Filtering these notifications out without affecting some others is not so easy as it should be. We are working on that in order to provide a better experience.
Hi there, I bought youre PRO version, nice app, IMO only missing one feature, a feature that lets you set a delay between notifications of the same app, eg when a app fires multiple alerts, it would be nice to get only one buzz on your wrist
I agree to some previous post, have an option to have the new notification services disabled by default
So I've been using this app now for about five days. I've pretty much got most of the notification apps for the SW2 all except Watchit were unreliable. I'm glad to report that this app hasn't missed a beat. I've replaced Watchit with this one. I'm really looking forward to the updates! Finally a decent competitor to Watchit!
Hi, i send an email for you, i perchasede your great app, but this app has a problem and not good for persian and arabic language users, because this app cant show notification with persian/arabic language and show persian text like???? , another app like augmented smart watch pro show correctly persian text on smart watch 2, please add this feature in next version
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Since I just flashed a 4.4 ROM, does this also work for 4.4 (4.3 and newer)?
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Nomad1600 said:
Since I just flashed a 4.4 ROM, does this also work for 4.4 (4.3 and newer)?
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i have 4.4.2 and it works ok. Sometimes maybe a little bit too many notifications
Does this app currently support or plan to support in the future, features similar to those shown on Android Wear smartwatches. For example being able to select archive on gmail notifications.
Hey all. I found on another forum a very good idea from the user tstreete - the list of apps for Your phone, that are compatible with the smartwatch.
What exactly does it mean? That You can see notifications, respond, see some info etc. So basically everything that would interact with our Gear S2 watch.
If You know about more apps please do share with us
I've divided everything into 6 sections:
Message & Mail
Gmail (notifications, read, reply, show on phone, delete)
GO SMS (Read and Reply)
Inbox (can't reply on the S2)
Messages (read and respond)
Nine - Exchange email app
Textra (can respond on the S2!)
Type Mail (reply, show on phone, etc)
QKSMS (reply, show on phone, etc.)
Music & Movies
Apple Music (volume, pause, next/previous track)
BubbleUPnP - only for Audio(pause and skip, no volume when playing on other device than local renderer)
Doubletwist (volume, pause, next/previous track)
GoneMAD Music Player (compatible)
Google Music (works with the music controls on the S2)
Media Monkey
My Music Cloud (choose the song from Album/Artist/Playlist lists; control the volume; play directly from internet to headset)
Samsung Milk Music
Spotify (volume, pause, next/previous track)
Tidal (works fine with the music player)
TuneIn Radio (works fine)
Navigation and places
Citymapper ("get off soon at stop X" notification)
Gear Navigator (a navigation app with watch app and companion app on phone, can show the way on the GearS2 using Google Maps data + fine notification system with vibrations, as 2 times for 'turn left' or 3 times for 'turn right')
HERE maps (turn by turn directions)
Komoot (sport navigation app; app for watch needs android app on phone)
Roadify Transit
Yelp
Others
Calendar
CNN (Breaking News updates)
ESPN (Requested notifications of the phone app side work very well)
Filesmaster (the file manager app from GearS; installed on the phone will let You send files to the watch by 'share it'; on the watch You can manage the files + check the current memory and processor usage).
Google Now (notifications of top card; clicking on an address in an event loads google maps on phone)
Google Wallet (Notifications only?)
My Notes (You can create notes on phone and sync with GearS2 to read it; also You can create and edit them on the smartwatch with standard keyboard)
Social
BBM (notification, reply)
Britix24 (notifications, read and anwser messages and comments)
Fenix (Twitter client, see notification + respond with Tweet)
Google + (Requested notifications)
Hangouts (installing the Android wear app from the play store allows you to reply to Hangout)
Messenger (communicator for Facebook, both check the notification and reply)
Periscope (Notifications Only)
Telegram (Read, reply works fine)
Skype (messages - read, reply)
Swarm (notifiaction, like; comment only on the phone)
WhatsApp (read, reply, also group chats)
Sport
S Health (from Samsung): heart rate monitoring, workouts (step count, running, walking, cycling, hiking, elliptical, stationary bike, step machine). No sleep monitoring, yet.
Nike Running (running - heart rate monitoring, distance, map with current location, music control, notification feedback from other users)
Edit (2015-12-15):
List updated. Thanks @straylight23, @Firetribe, @rgburress, @CASz, @Willyman and @mjsheldon4, @xraytedjim, @Joel821, @kta for Your input
Thank you for your time to make this list. I tried to get Hangout to work, but no luck. I downloaded as you said the android wear app, enter the app, pair the phone with an emulator, give the app permissions on the notifications settings, but instead I got no notifications at all from hangout. All the other notifications worked normally. When I unistalled the android wear app, hangout notifications were back Also about Facebook messenger I can only press like and read the message, not able to respond to messages. Any help how can I get these 2 to work?
mixalismi7 said:
Thank you for your time to make this list. I tried to get Hangout to work, but no luck. I downloaded as you said the android wear app, enter the app, pair the phone with an emulator, give the app permissions on the notifications settings, but instead I got no notifications at all from hangout. All the other notifications worked normally. When I unistalled the android wear app, hangout notifications were back Also about Facebook messenger I can only press like and read the message, not able to respond to messages. Any help how can I get these 2 to work?
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What kind of phone do You have?
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What kind of phone do You have?
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I have Note 4 (N910-f) running 5.1.1 official rom. I get messenger working by installing it again, now I have the option to respond pressing the 3 little dots on the side. No luck with hangout though. Whenever I install android wear, no notifications. Any ideas?
Moto g 2nd generation
I used Moto G 1st gen. I know it is not compatbile with Gear S2.
How about Moto G 2nd gen, does it work with S2?
I would like to buy 2nd G or maybe 3rd gen.
Dear All,
just curious.. is App like Whatsapp, BBM, wundershare not compactible? at least the notifications can be shown on the watch?
babejuprie said:
Dear All,
just curious.. is App like Whatsapp, BBM, wundershare not compactible? at least the notifications can be shown on the watch?
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Dunno about wundershare or BBS, but WhatsApp work just fine. I receive notifications and van anwser them.
WhatsApp works (notification, chat history, answer)
BubbleUPnP works for Audio (pause and skip, no volume when playing on other device than local renderer)
Media Monkey works
Most media player should in fact work with the built-in media control, as there seem to be global shortcuts for that...
I have noticed that I am able to get notifications and reply via the watch for Skype messenger as well. I thought this was very cool as I use Skype messenger a bit.
I get notifications from BBM and can reply.
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I notice group chats are now supported in WhatsApp. That's definitely new. Don't know if it's because of the watch update or a WhatsApp update.
QKSMS works great for SMS. Read & Respond w/input or custom templates. Mark as read/ open on phone
Forgot to mention before, but Telegram works similar to the other messaging apps. Read, reply works fine. No option for creating a new message as its not an app on the watch.
Texting app: GOSMS
Can: Read and Reply
GoneMad Music player is also compatible...
Tunein radio also works fine
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How about Endomondo ?
The social office app Bitrix24 also works with the S2. You get notifications of things regarding your profile and you are able to read and anwser messages and comments.
Hi, loving the s2 sad about lack of apps but very very hopeful. Podcast manager? I use Pocket Casts....would love to have that or another type of podcast controler on the watch. Can anyone help?
offerup App - notifcations only but would love to see replies to work