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lmano
lmano

Reputation: 41

Wear OS - How to automatically start app on device restart

I've created a Wear OS app. It has a service running in the foreground. I need to have the app always executing. When I restart the watch the app doesn't start executing again. How can I automatically relaunch the app?

It's my first app for Wear OS and I don't know how to search for this.

Thank you!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 665

Answers (1)

Yuri Schimke
Yuri Schimke

Reputation: 13498

I'm not 100% certain, and it's a bad idea for an app to do in most cases. But I believe

https://developer.android.com/reference/android/Manifest.permission#RECEIVE_BOOT_COMPLETED

This will wake up your broadcast receiver so you can run some code, but as you discovered you are probably restricted against starting an activity.

https://developer.android.com/guide/components/activities/background-starts

Upvotes: 0

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