What about Pebble Watch?
https://developer.getpebble.com/2/guides/javascript-guide.html

They have a JavaScript SDK. Similar concept as Google wear in terms of
messaging/notifications from/to phone



On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Ross Gerbasi <[email protected]> wrote:

> Yeah thats a good call on waiting until we get something more solid. It
> really does seem like right now all we can really do is show notifications
> in the emulator, not super exciting.
>
> I guess I can put together the beginnings of a wear plugin that allows for
> notifications to go to the emulator from a JS app on your device, but I
> don't think anyone will care much until it is expanded upon.
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:11 AM, Joe Bowser <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:03 AM, Ross Gerbasi <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > > Alright on it ;) I am starting to think this is not the case though for
> > > Android Wear (the webview anyway)  As I have been reading through the
> > > Getting started guide here it says
> > >
> > > *Caution:* Do not install apps on the Android Wear emulator. The system
> > > does not support traditional Android apps and the result of running
> such
> > > apps is unpredictable.
> >
> > Yeah, the emulator is stripped down for only notifications for now.
> > This is most likely on purpose because the Android team doesn't know
> > how things will work yet.
> >
> > >
> > > I am starting to see that wear is simply a receiver for things (mainly
> > > notifications) from an App. With the ability to send a response
> backlike
> > > what button was clicked or what text to speech thingy you said. If
> anyone
> > > else has looked into this more please tell me if I am off track, but I
> > > believe this will be very simple to add cordova support via a plugin.
> We
> > > will simply add the wear jar library and abstract out all the "send
> > > notification" magic to allow javascript to send those along.
> > >
> >
> > We should have a notifications plugin on Android, but I don't think it
> > should be core.
> >
> > Honestly, we should wait until there's a real device and there's more
> > information.  I primarily see the value of Android Wear as a
> > Garmin/FitBit Killer in that this device will most likely replace your
> > FitBit, your GPS watch and may have a heart rate monitor.  Of course,
> > you need access to the device to see if you can access the
> > accelerometer and Heart Rate Monitor.  Right now, Google has only
> > exposed the ability to push notifications up to users, which IMO is
> > pretty meh. If you use the Beta app and enable notifications, the
> > notifications already get pushed up.  I was already able to launch G+
> > and Ingress from the emulator.
> >
> > But yeah, I wish I knew people at LG and Motorola.
> >
>



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Carlos Santana
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