Adding Voice Capabilities on Android Wear

Question

I'm trying to set up my application to respond to one of the system-provided voice actions .

By following the above mentioned link I should declare, within my android wear apk, an activity that has a very specific intent filter.

In my sample application i tried to "hook" on the "Set a timer" Voice action so my AndroidManifest.xml has the following code:

    <activity android:name=".wear.MyActivity2">
        <intent-filter>
            <action android:name="android.provider.AlarmClock.ACTION_SET_TIMER" />
        </intent-filter>
    </activity>

I then bundled, signed and installed the app in my phone. I then verified that the app got installed in both my phone and the watch ( LG G Watch ).

After veryfiying that everything went right i tried to see if my app was listed as "option" for the "Set timer" voice action within the "Android Wear" app. => It didn't.

I then tried rebooting both the phone and the watch and ultimately i tried the "Refresh apps" button that is shown within the "Android Wear" -> "Settings" menu.

Nothing changed. It looks like i cannot make the "Android Wear" app aware of my app so that it listens for the desired voice action and acts accordingly.

Notes:

I tried also other voice actions ( Even the one provided as example in the link - Take a note )
I tried different permutations of reboot/resync
I double checked that the android wear app was the latest compiled
Both phone and wear app share the same package name
The Activity does nothing except showing the hello world layout...

in development mode you need to deploy your wearable app manually to the watch - see Packaging Wearable Apps in the docs. — Peter Friese

Peter Friese Peter Friese · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-07T18:21:52

Use this intent filter instead:

<intent-filter>
  <action android:name="android.intent.action.SET_TIMER"/>
  <category android:name="android.intent.category.DEFAULT"/>
</intent-filter>

Adding Voice Capabilities on Android Wear

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