Add scriptable Sound and Vibration feedback to component properties

[MaadGamer]

Is it possible to script vibration or sound feedback to a component added to a watch face in WFS for Wear OS? I would like to add a sound or vibration feedback when the live heart rate tracking for my custom watch face is below 40.

[russellcresser]

Not in WFS . You have to look into Android Studio and Watch Face Format .

[Gondwana]

Watch Face Format can’t do it either, which means that no current Wear OS watchface dev tool can do it.

You could do it by writing a Wear OS background service, but that’s several orders of magnitude more difficult. You might also fall foul of one of Google’s recent policy changes, which makes it hard to get Health and Fitness apps published.

[MaadGamer]

This would be an amazing addon feature to watch face studio; hopefully, it is something a Samsung dev eventually adds as a feature of the software. I have spent the day trying to import my WFS creation into android studio, only to get error upon error trying to run it in Android Studio. Android Studio does not seem to friendly with watch face studio creations. I don’t really care much about the play store accepting my app… I am more interested in just adding the feature for my own use. I have a heart condition that I try to keep a close eye on, and being able to get an alert that grabs my attention would be really neat.

[Peter]

I think, they either do not care, or do have other channels trough which they gather feedback just from their favorite creators, as since Ron retired there was no “official” response about feature requests.

WFS Feature Requests 2024

Until we had Ron as Samsung representative on this forum, we also had a very useful new topic each year about features requested to implement on new releases of WFS. Unfortunately there is no more such good practice, and each release it misses very important features even from WFF 1. So I hope this topic will help again Developer Team to keep track on what is really missing yet after one year. I hope we can collect more suggestions and I would like to invite everyone to write down what is miss…

WFS Feature Requests Q1 2024

Create new Feature Requests for Watch Face Studio in this topic. Feature request will be gathered and submitted to the Development Team and Samsung Support. Do not report bugs in this topic. Ron Samsung Developer Relations

[masterboyhr]

@MaadGamer

I have a heart condition that I try to keep a close eye on, and being able to get an alert that grabs my attention would be really neat.

Don’t bet your life on Samsung heart readings… it’s pretty shit*y…
Don’t get me wrong, most of the times works but also many times gives false readings or stops working.
Here is an example from yesterday, just stoped working in the middle of exercise, after 10 minutes. No reading at all.

Other times just goes nuts, heart rate on watch shows 150 beats and it’s not, it’s less than 100.
I’m comparing it with exercise machines readings.

[MaadGamer]

Not betting my life, just using a little talent and skill to manipulate things I can control. I’ve been the type, if it doesn’t exist, code it. I’m having a medical device, loop monitor, implanted in a few weeks. I still have to know when I have bad days, so I know what time frames and readings from this device to call my Dr about. I’ve already had confirmed unusual reading from another heart monitor that was taped to my chest for a few weeks. This is just a secondary means of tracking it that I would like to be able to code in some alerts to grab my attention.

[Gondwana]

I think the limitation is more fundamental than WFS. WFS creates WFF, and WFF doesn’t support alerts. You can suggest WFF enhancements here.

[Gondwana]

My Pixel Watch 2 actually supports heart-rate alerts independently of any particular watch face.

[MaadGamer]

The Samsung health app for my Galaxy watch allegedly supports it too, but doesn’t do it for some strange reason. I’ve already done the feature request in the correct forum, my initial post was more of a question.