Android Wear Preview not connecting to Wear Emulator

Question

I am trying to setup my development environment for Google Wear and have followed Google's instructions but as soon as I setup the port forwarding (adb -d forward tcp:5601 tcp:5601) I am getting an error on the device;

Connection closed, waiting before trying again

I have the emulator running on the PC and Android device is a Nexus 4, 4.4.4.

Answer 1

If you've updated everything, and have the new emulator, you might need Android Wear (not Android Wear Preview). Follow these steps: http://developer.android.com/preview/google-play-services-wear.html

You may have done this recently, but now that Google Play Services 5.0, and Android Wear is out (unofficially) it's worth trying again to get the latest updates.

OR, you may just need to click that emulator button in the screenshot, to let the app know you're connecting to an emulator.

Answer 2

One issue I found when attempting to do this 2 weeks ago, is that despite the documentation saying to save the image to a snapshot, the emulator will not connect when launched from a snapshot. Launch the emulator and uncheck the box for "launch from snapshot."

Once the emulator is running, run

adb devices

and ensure the watch emulator is showing and has "device" next to it. If it does, then you can run

adb -d forward tcp:5601 tcp:5601

Now try connecting the preview app.