Pairing Android and Wear emulators

Question

I don't have an Android Wear, nor do I have a phone running 4.3. Is there a way to connect the JB 4.3 emulator and Android Wear emulator for app development?

Answer 1

After reading a blog post a few days ago I finally managed to connect an emulated Android-Device to a Wear-Emulator.
Here are the different steps that are necessary:

Step #1

Create a new emulator that is based on the Google APIs platform, otherwise you won't be able to run the Android Wear Companion app since it requires the Google Play Services. (See Android Developer site)

Step #2

Start the Phone Emulator and install the Android Wear Companion app via the following command

adb install name_of_the_file.apk

You can download the latest apk from here.

Step #3

Start the Wear-Emulator.

Step #4

Open the Android Wear App on the Phone Emulator. Accept the TOS and so on.

Step #5

Open your command prompt and make sure both emulators are recognized with the following command

adb devices

Output should be something like this:

List of devices attached emulator-5554   device emulator-5556   device 

In my case emulator-5556 is the Phone. You can find this by looking at the Window-Title of the emulator.
See the following Screenshot:

Step 6

Open your command prompt once again and start a telnet session on the port of your smartphone emulator:

telnet localhost 5556

Afterwards it'll try to connect and if it succeeds it'll show a new window saying something like this:

Android Console: type 'help' for a list of commands OK 

Now enter the following command:

redir add tcp:5601:5601

Afterwards it should say OK.

Step 7

Open the Android-Wear companion app once again and click on the watch-icon in the ActionBar and if everything worked it should connect to your Wear-Emulator.

And, as previously said, this was posted on kennethmascarenhas blog. (props to him)