Both these two applications can push notifications from all apps on the phone. WatchIt is free, ASP is not, but it is more powerful, since it has Tasker integration, and can do more.
Which one are use using, and what are the pros/cons over the other?
Are there other alternatives?
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I don't want to get eye cancer so I'm using WatchIt. (Augmented SmartWatch really looks awful to me.) For Tasker, there's the Tasker Smart Extension and WatchIt! will also display notifications from Tasker.
If you want to do more complex stuff, you can always use Remote Widget and Zoom for Tasker do use interactive widgets from the SW2.
Yes, the look and feel of Augmented Smartwatch is ugly...
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For some reason Augmented Smartwatch causes my S4 to lock up. I've worked some with the developer, and I even reset my phone. My s$ locks up for about 20 seconds when a notification comes in, and my watch goes blank. Eventually the notification pops up on the watch. From what little I have been able to use it, it actually is too much IMHO. Watchit! is simple and generally what I need.
I'm very want to use ASP because of ASP's powerful function and full screen show notification when running app on watch.
But it can't show Full-width characters well. (like "ｃｈａｒ")
While showing long string of Full-width, it will only show one line and beyond the watch, but not word wrap.
May ASP author can fix this error, certainly i will purchase this app and using as well.
Watchit seems to be ok, but I did have a problem with that. My Note 10.1 (touchwiz?) / A4.1.2 started talking back to me when the easy accessibility was on for Watchit (and talkback was off). I think I managed to fix it by the way i found it from another discussion: need to clear data from google text to speech app. (When the easy access is still on for Watchit - otherwise it will keep talking back). Seems to work great!
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Watchit
I bought the ASP application, but I do not use .... Why?:
1.- Text is infamous
2.- I have not gotten to see pictures of Whatsapp
3.- Notices of whatsapp can not be selected for viewing (Watchit can)
4.- Weather is bad
5.- Watchit.... Free
6.- ASP....4,99 €
Undoubtedly watchit
Galaxy note 1, With J. B. 4.1.2 and SmartWatch 1
Have to agree with the majority here, i tried ASP but its sooo ugly and takes a bit of configuration, watchit works well, quickly and does what you want.
Both apps arnt perfect but free vs £3 is a no brainer
tbh alot of things are workarounds for what sony could develop and implement but havnt
If the galaxy gear wasnt so damn expensive, i'd have one instead
Seems like I need to clear data from Google text-to-speech everytime I restart the phone - otherwise my phone is talking back to me when scrolling screens. Well, a minor bug... I rarely shutdown/restart the phone anyway. Some other thing I notice that WatchIt (or sw2? not sure) interacts with developer sections choices somehow, mixing the settings so that phone doesnt know if they are turned on or off and you need to restart your phone. (Note 10.1 / A4.1.2)
When compairing SW2 and Gear, Im so lucky that Samsung didn't update my N8000 before Xmas (Gear needs A4.3 to run), I would have bought Gear aswell. BUT... SW2 looks much better than Gear, and it feels great on your wrist (a metal band) and I couldnt even wear Gear at work (water/chemicals/not wearable with a suit or better clothes either). I don't need functions like "talk to the hand!" or similar.. Just plain, classy-looks watch to notify me: phones, sms, etc... because I keep my phone (N8000) all the time in a bag, and i rarely even hear when it rings or get messages. And if I heard it rings, i didnt know who's calling.
SW2 and Gear were almost the same price: 199 euros (metal band) / 249 euros, so it wasn't the "money issue". The quality and style of SW2 is impressive and I feel lucky that I didnt bought Gear. Thank you Samsung you didn't update my device! :victory:
Wristin is another alternative.
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Two things with Watchit! and every other sw2 notification app I've tried. 1st, you can't mark the notification as viewed on the phone, when checked on the watch. And secondly, text grouping. Would be nice to have each contacts in their own thread. If anyone knows of solutions to these or another app which has these features it would be much appreciated
Cheers
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Two things with Watchit! and every other sw2 notification app I've tried. 1st, you can't mark the notification as viewed on the phone, when checked on the watch.
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Is there any SW2 notification app that does this? I'm thinking about replacing my Pebble with the Sony but if this functon is missing, I probably wouldn't.
On the Pebble, there's an app called Notification Center that allows you dismiss the phone notification with one button and keep the phone notification with a press of the other button.
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Is there any SW2 notification app that does this? I'm thinking about replacing my Pebble with the Sony but if this functon is missing, I probably wouldn't.
On the Pebble, there's an app called Notification Center that allows you dismiss the phone notification with one button and keep the phone notification with a press of the other button.
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Is there any SW2 notification app that does this? I'm thinking about replacing my Pebble with the Sony but if this functon is missing, I probably wouldn't.
On the Pebble, there's an app called Notification Center that allows you dismiss the phone notification with one button and keep the phone notification with a press of the other button.
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I've heard the ap watch notifier can do that. But I haven't tried it.
I think it's in Google play
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I've heard the ap watch notifier can do that. But I haven't tried it.
I think it's in Google play
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In the description for that app, it only mentions that your watch notifications will be marked as read when you turn on your phone display. Doesn't work the other way around I don't think.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.elfsoft.watchnotifier
I am using "WatchNotifier" as well. Great App.
If you only need whatsapp notification on your smartwatch then you can try WhatsApp Smart Notification. It also displays the contact picture and UI is good.
I am using Notification Pro for Smartwatch and I love it. The support is fantastic as the developer updates it very often.
I haven't been able to find this Notification pro on the Play Store. Can you give us any pointers?
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I haven't been able to find this Notification pro on the Play Store. Can you give us any pointers?
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https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pacosal.sw2.accnew
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Hello. I'm finishing learning javascripting and android programing lessons, and i would like to develop an app. I would like to try something original, so i want to ask you guys an idea of what to develop . What do you think would be usefull and missing for you? Thanks
Hello, for me i wish you could create an "twitter app" with ICS design
I can help you with futures & the bugs
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Hello, for me i wish you could create an "twitter app" with ICS design
I can help you with futures & the bugs
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TweetLine and Boid aren't good enough? Think about something original...
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Someone is looking for a Yahoo Fantasty Football app....with better UI
Okay how about an app that uses your phone's GPS to find all grocery stores in your area. From there you can type in the name of an item and it would cross reference the prices of all the surrounding stores and give you a list of all the prices. With the economy being in the crapper and money getting tight, it seems like it could be a killer app.
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Okay how about an app that uses your phone's GPS to find all grocery stores in your area. From there you can type in the name of an item and it would cross reference the prices of all the surrounding stores and give you a list of all the prices. With the economy being in the crapper and money getting tight, it seems like it could be a killer app.
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Google Maps + Google Shopper already do this to the best knowledge they can as stores do not show all food costs online.
since you say u r new, i suggest you to go for an idea which has already been made and put your flavor on it, once you get your hands on it, u can make something original. I like a fully functional app that uaes the proximity sensor to operate differnt functions, there is already an app, but it has flaws
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Thanks you for some of the suggestions. I m going to start soon and share here some of he work.
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Sport speaker an app that send you a push notification of your team scores, it with holo style.
For example you mark an sport, an league or one team (in the different competitions) what would you like and the app sent you a push notification with the score at the end of the match
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I had a idea.. but its very special.. a weather app for Germany with radar, satellite picture's and so on.
Phil
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Make a good porn app.
An animated nyan cat widget (with a mute toggle) would be nice...
Haha I was thinking in some app what make raffles. For example: many people get together at an raffle, then each person gives their numbers to participate, then your Android randomly chooses a number and sends a SMS to the winner.
You can read the numbers from a file.
Clock in notification panel
Hi, I would like to see a clock developed which would sit in the notification panel. There would be an optional icon displayed in the status bar.
I like to keep my wallpaper clean and it would be useful to drop the notification panel down and see a customizeable digital clock. It should open the alarm or calendar When tapped.
Good luck with any project undertaken.
Need a nice bouncing boobs live wallpaper that works on SlimBean :-o
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Need a nice bouncing boobs live wallpaper that works on SlimBean :-o
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Seems a nice idea. Hehe. I like the grocery idea. Any Other suggestions?
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I was just thinking of an app that help me make a reminder for bill, and it must support taking OCR of the bill details.
I know there is one in the market, but doesn't work like what I want.
It should work like the business card reader, where it knows which part is a person's name, which part is the company, which part is the address, the phone, the email, so on and so forth.
This bill app should let me "scan" the bottom part of my bill with the camera, where the payment details are (account number, amount, due date) and set a reminder for me on my google calendar.
How about an app Like the iPod Shuffles VoiceOver thing which tells you what song is playing?
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How about an app Like the iPod Shuffles VoiceOver thing which tells you what song is playing?
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i dont think is a hard thing to do but i think is always dependent to the app you use to play music, but is something i can see also.
The main idea of this post is to get ideas base on the needs of nowadays. Like when we are on the street, and we need that app for knowing the nearest grocery or something else wich could make our life easier. If anyone has time to think a little on what they need most, and think is missing, or an app wich they dont think is easy enought, thats mostly what i want to start building. I really liked some ideas here already stated, just 1 more week and i'm ready for building apps.
About porn apps , maybe after the serious stuff for fun lool
What about an app that shows any combination of chosen apps in tabs?
For example, you can put your favorite calendar app and your favorite task planner app in a single tabbed layout.
Or your music player and last.fm scrobbler.
Or Whatsapp, K9 Mail, and your SMS app all in a single three-tabbed meta messaging app.
Or Skype and Viber.
Etc.
It wouldn't take a lot of coding. You just need some code to frame other apps in yours, a settings screen to choose which apps you want to see, and a way to send a shortcut to your home-made app combo to your homescreen. If it's your first app it's a good idea to keep it simple.
anybody have this happen yet, or know how to fix it?
just got my smartwatch 2 on Monday so im still new to the functionality and tweaking.
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anybody have this happen yet, or know how to fix it?
just got my smartwatch 2 on Monday so im still new to the functionality and tweaking.
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I don't have the smartwatch yet, but what icon is missing? Is it possibly related to a function that could be toggled on or off in the settings menu?
not sure. I woke up and had a hole in that spot. when I rearrange icons, the hole is still there. there also used to be an icon at the top. it was a white circle with three dots inside next to the battery. it's no longer there either.
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I don't know where your icons have gone but the circle with the dots appears when you have an unread message. Scroll down the app drawer and you will see the message. Once you have read the message the circle is gone.
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Do you have smartwatch 1 before? I had this problem too, after i deinstalled sw1 apps and reset it works.
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Do you have smartwatch 1 before? I had this problem too, after i deinstalled sw1 apps and reset it works.
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no. this is my first time owning a smart watch. i think the icon that is missing is the events icon. i didnt use that app anyways so its not affecting me any. its just that spot where it used to be cannot be used, its just a hole. lol only app i have that is an original smartwatch app is the SMS composer. might have to delete and reset watch, and reinstall.
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no. this is my first time owning a smart watch. i think the icon that is missing is the events icon. i didnt use that app anyways so its not affecting me any. its just that spot where it used to be cannot be used, its just a hole. lol only app i have that is an original smartwatch app is the SMS composer. might have to delete and reset watch, and reinstall.
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You should first check your smartwatch application on the phone. I've got the same problem with runtastic app, which deleted from the phone, but (by unknown reason) not from the smartwatch app. And because of that I have empty place on my smartwatch 2
Is it just me or can I not customize the order I want my apps in on the smartwatch 2? I press the menu button and the only options are alphabetical and frequency used. Is anyone else having this issue or am I just missing something?
Thanks!
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Is it just me or can I not customize the order I want my apps in on the smartwatch 2? I press the menu button and the only options are alphabetical and frequency used. Is anyone else having this issue or am I just missing something?
Thanks!
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It's not a bug. It's a feature
illBelief said:
Is it just me or can I not customize the order I want my apps in on the smartwatch 2? I press the menu button and the only options are alphabetical and frequency used. Is anyone else having this issue or am I just missing something?
Thanks!
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Those be the only options at this time my friend
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Only thing you can do is use Frequency, and keep tap the app you want to order and the home button. You can also tap it when watch not connected to phone.
Yeah, this seems one of the strangest missing features IMO. I don't see why you can't simply re-order them in the Smart Connect app, either - would that be so hard? Either way, the favorites thing is not so bad until the watch goes and forgets the order you had them in, which can be mighty annoying. It's happened to me only once so far but, like aseeme555076 says you can sort of force it to order them how you want.
sw2 extension: "This is the official Sony application for SmartWatch 2 SW2. It enables you to utilize all the powerful Android benefits of this innovative smartphone accessory*. With this app, you can decide how your smartphone interacts with SmartWatch 2, what app extensions are available for your watch and how they are arranged. "
I tried several times to arrange them, "click and drag" but it was impossible, they didn't move :laugh:
Anyway, I miss this feature.It would be great to put them in a certain order. I wonder why Sony didn't make it possible to arrange them from the phone in sw2 extension app.
I'm hardly a noob at Android, but am a noob to the Sony Smartwatch 2. I've downloaded some extensions that are absolutely useless, then I've found a few that have been pretty good. My main notification that I need to be consistent on the watch is my hangouts notifications. That's not the only extension or app I'm looking for. What have you guys found to be the most consistent and useful app and extensions? I have an international HTC One Max for the record.
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Remote widget. You can use and control any widget on your watches like on homescreen. Total musthave for me. I have in there yatse xbmc control, local rain map, another weather widget, Google music native widget, music volume widget, settings control via power toggle.
I can imagine that everyone can find it useful.
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Remote widget. You can use and control any widget on your watches like on homescreen. Total musthave for me. I have in there yatse xbmc control, local rain map, another weather widget, Google music native widget, music volume widget, settings control via power toggle.
I can imagine that everyone can find it useful.
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Good suggestion! Thanks so much! Downloading now!
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OK, if you like my suggestions I have couple more of them.
For example smartsquare - foursquare on watches.
Watchify - notification from every app
Smart note - I am using this like grocery list - food shopping has never been so easy
Smartreader - open any txt file - usable for longer texts, various settings
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OK, if you like my suggestions I have couple more of them.
For example smartsquare - foursquare on watches.
Watchify - notification from every app
Smart note - I am using this like grocery list - food shopping has never been so easy
Smartreader - open any txt file - usable for longer texts, various settings
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Awesome! Keep em coming folks. Trying all of the above.
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ModeChanger - Set your phone's sound profile on your SmartWatch. (Normal, Vibrate, Silent).
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ModeChanger - Set your phone's sound profile on your SmartWatch. (Normal, Vibrate, Silent).
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Yeah but graphics is not optimized for sw2 resolution so it looks crappy. But it works like charm i have to say
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Smart reader is pure win BTW.
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Not sure if there is a topic like this somewhere, but this may be a good topic to be stuck. Just a thought.
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I use Toggles. Similar to Modechanger but optimized for sony watch 2. Been very handy.
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I use Toggles. Similar to Modechanger but optimized for sony watch 2. Been very handy.
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Great app. Use it all the time!
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I use Toggles. Similar to Modechanger but optimized for sony watch 2. Been very handy.
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Most useful extension I've got. I tether my tablet a fair bit at work and I can enable mobile data and tethering without even taking my phone out. Very handy.
Auto Lock is quite handy for if you lose your phone or if it gets stolen. Automatically locks your phone with a pin as soon as it becomes disconnected from the watch.
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sms writer is a good one. I carry my phone n8000 in a bag all the time and it is nowadays much easier to reply for sms =)
Remote widget is nice too, but... I dont know, it is more like a toy for me, just for fun. Well, I use it to control spotify play/stop because the spotify app I found is terrible...
Calender app. I would be lost without it. I need to check my calender events to see where I should be on everytime, lol.
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SqueezeWatch.
I have a Squeezebox Classic streaming music wirelessly to my stereo, using Logitech Media Server on my Windows PC.
SqueezeWatch connects to the server on the PC via Bluetooth/Wifi and lets me control the server (Start, Stop, Volume, Track) from my Smartwatch 2.
Some of my apps that haven't been mentioned:
- Advanced Sample Control: a very nice Tasker app, I use it particularly for time logging, can check in and check out of Time Recorder with Tasker tasks. Also I use it for things like turning on the phone torch.
- Find Phone
- GPS Map2: for directions when walking somewhere
- K-9 Mail: I use this on the watch rather with gmail as it is significantly more powerful than the Sony Gmail app.
- Music Control: Works much better than the Sony one
- Smart Calculator: perfect AND free
- Smart Camera: a great remote shutter app for group photos, as long as you set it to delay for a few seconds while you take your hand off your watch!
- Smart Note: perfect for keeping notes on my wrist, like the times of train connections.
- Smartwatch Shopping List: works nicely with the shopping list on my phone. Much easier than using the phone while shopping.
I just wanna chime in and say the runtastic app is really good. Only thing it's missing is low power mode (this means the app will stay open after the screen dims, correct?) You can start the phone app up from your watch and start, stop your tracking-- all with out even looking at your phone. Might sound obvious, but the runtastic app on pebble can't really do this. Pebble can't start the runtastic app if it's not already open. Also, it's not a runtastic app; it's using pebble's sport tracker API thing, which means it's supposed to add a stock "sport" app to the top of your pebble list when you open runtastic on your phone, but It didn't even ever work properly for me. Buggy as hell, most of the time the sport app would just never even appear, but when it would it would freeze, and if I ever left the app to say, change my music volume, I would have no way to return to the sport tracker cause the app's menu listing would disappear.
I keep seeing people who review SW2 complain that sony's app selection is lame, compared to Pebble, but I completely disagree. Pebble doesn't really have much more apps than sony; Pebble has a crap load of watch faces.
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The only app I'm really -- REALLY missing from pebble is Tiny Birds.
Which widgets do you use on your Watches?
I use this one as watch face: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droid27.transparentclockweather&hl=en-GB
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Which widgets do you use on your Watches?
I use this one as watch face: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droid27.transparentclockweather&hl=en-GB
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Endomondo and Footy live scores..... So cool.
I use transparent weather widget as well, however find it sometimes doesn't update and time can be way off. Any clue why?
How do you set a widget as a watch face??
Endomondo, fotmob pro, a weather app called El tiempo.es, Spotify ?
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Endomondo, fotmob pro, a weather app called El tiempo.es, Spotify ?
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Endomondo native widget is useless. Due to the screen resolution you must choose only one of three parameters you'd like to see together.
I agree, Endomondo really should work on their app.
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Endomondo native widget is useless. Due to the screen resolution you must choose only one of three parameters you'd like to see together.
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I know. That's why I only use heart rate monitor widget, because the rest of the info can be gotten by pressing the button of your headphones
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I agree, Endomondo really should work on their app.
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Of course it should! We created a thread on their Web for it but we were ignored. Moreover, I don't know if it's working for you lately or not, but last versions for me are working bad with my sw2, so I keep using 10.1.1 ?
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Of course it should! We created a thread on their Web for it but we were ignored. Moreover, I don't know if it's working for you lately or not, but last versions for me are working bad with my sw2, so I keep using 10.1.1 ?
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Endomondo compatibility was the only reason I have chosen SW2. If only had I known that Peeble has got its Endo software, I would have thought it over one more time. Unfortunatelly I don't see any alternative software, having registered my workouts for last 3 years on Endomondo.
One way or another: remote widgets are not better in any way than the native Endomondo widget, even if it makes you press power button every time.
I also use Google+ widget (as it looks kewl) and Google Play Music Widget on my watch to change the song. I'm at home listening on my Chromecast and changing the songs with my watch
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Endomondo compatibility was the only reason I have chosen SW2. If only had I known that Peeble has got its Endo software, I would have thought it over one more time. Unfortunatelly I don't see any alternative software, having registered my workouts for last 3 years on Endomondo.
One way or another: remote widgets are not better in any way than the native Endomondo widget, even if it makes you press power button every time.
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The latest version of remote widgets lets you "resize". So you can use the endomondo widget on remote widgets to display 3 parameters in low power mode. I agree with everyone re endomondo support. It's taken remote widgets to make it useful. Runtastic is no better and it's supposed to be feature app.
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The latest version of remote widgets lets you "resize". So you can use the endomondo widget on remote widgets to display 3 parameters in low power mode.
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I've given it a try. It actually lets resize, but the Endo widget doesn't look well to me when resized. And one can not pause / resume workouts of course. Having to choose between two bad solutions, I still preffer the native Endomondo widget. The only we can do if Endomondo team doesn't improve their widget is to cancel Premium subscription. Actually most part of premium features are useless to me. I pay them just to support the software development.