Wear Button Remapper<\/p>\n
Take control of the hardware buttons<\/p>\n
One of the cool things about a Galaxy Watch is that Samsung actually makes it easy to choose your own shortcuts for the hardware buttons. However, not every single action can be customized. For example, long-pressing the Home button is locked to launching Samsung Wallet.<\/p>\n
I prefer Google Wallet, so I used to get around this by launching it with the programmable Back button double-press. Wear Button Remapper<\/a>, on the other hand, allows me to override the Samsung Wallet shortcut for my own purposes. The app allows for launching multiple apps with the Back button and overriding existing actions.<\/p>\n Any Android widget on your Galaxy Watch<\/p>\n Wear OS has grown to include a nice selection of widgets, but it can\u2019t compare to the massive library of apps with excellent widgets on phones. Wearable Widgets is an app that allows you to put those phone widgets on your watch.<\/p>\n It\u2019s really pretty simple. First, you\u2019ll need to sideload both the watch app<\/a> and phone app<\/a> (the Play Store version<\/a> was not compatible with my phone). Then it\u2019s just a matter of tapping the plus button in the phone app, selecting an app, choosing its widget, and then seeing it appear on the watch screen. The only bummer is that you can\u2019t set Wearable Widgets itself to be a Wear OS widget.<\/p>\n Google Clock<\/p>\n Get more of that Pixel Watch feeling<\/p>\n Google officially offers quite a few of its apps for all Wear OS devices, including the Galaxy Watch. That includes Google Home, Maps, Keep, Gmail, Calendar, Wallet, and several more\u2014but not Google Clock. The good news is it works perfectly when sideloaded.<\/p>\n After you download the APK<\/a> and sideload it, you\u2019ll see three new apps on your Galaxy Watch\u2014alarms, stopwatch, and timer\u2014but they\u2019re all part of the same app. The clock widgets are completely functional as well. However, don\u2019t get your hopes up if you\u2019re looking to sync alarms between a Pixel phone and a Galaxy Watch.<\/p>\n Facebook Messenger<\/p>\n Only if you\u2019re desperate<\/p>\n The last one I\u2019ll mention is not recommended unless you really, really need it. Facebook Messenger technically works on a Galaxy Watch (make sure to download<\/a> a v7a with 360-480 DPI version of the APK). However, the experience is Not Good. It doesn\u2019t scale to the screen size very well, some buttons are literally impossible to tap, and there\u2019s not a great way to go \u201cBack\u201d in the app. That being said, I was able to successfully send a message, so it can be done if absolutely necessary.<\/p>\n Check out this thread over at the XDA Forums<\/a> with some other apps to try sideloading. Once you have the ability to send APK files to your watch, trying out new ones is an easy process.<\/p>\n
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