Launch an Android Wear app with a “Start …” voice command

Question

I try to launch my wear app by Start voice command. I followed the documentation Adding Voice Capabilities. But when I try to launch the app by saying (OK Google) "Start my app" I receive the Google Now web search results back for the topics related to the "Start my app" instead of launching the app itself.

<activity         android:label="my app"         android:name=".MainActivityWear"         android:theme="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.Light">         <intent-filter>             <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />             <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />         </intent-filter>     </activity  

My feeling is that the documentation is outdated and the Start command used to be in older versions of Android wear. (My version is 1.3.0 with OS 5.1.1.) I think so, because in my version of the wear to activate the Speak Now card I have to say "OK Google" or swipe the screen from left. The Settings/Launcher with the app list is 2 pages left from the Speak Now card, rather than at the bottom of the card as mentioned in this documentation: Wearable Applications Launch. Especially the part saying the following looks unfamiliar to my watch behaviour:

To manually launch the app, touch the watch face and scroll to the last action, which is “Start...”. Then select your app from the list of installed apps, in this case First_Wearable.

Is anyone able to launch apps in watch by START voice command? Am I doing something wrong?

Answer 1

You need to create a custom activity command. See the docs

<application>   <activity        android:name="StartRunActivity"        android:label="my app">       <intent-filter>           <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />           <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />       </intent-filter>   </activity> </application> 

Instead, you used:

<activity     android:label="my app"     android:name=".MainActivityWear"     android:theme="@android:style/Theme.DeviceDefault.Light">     <intent-filter>         <action android:name="android.intent.action.MAIN" />         <category android:name="android.intent.category.LAUNCHER" />     </intent-filter> </activity> 

You used ".MainActivityWear" -> instead of: "StartRunActivity"

That may be a keyword, I'm not sure, or maybe the dot in the name is causing the problem.

Also, try it without the theme.

And do you have everything under the tag?