Watchface format - How to get the data from wear OS application?

We have currently one Watchface and one Wear OS App. When the app receives messages, we show the message count on the watchface. We achieved this by broadcasting the message count from the Wear OS app to the watchface.

now we are redesiging the watchface with watchface format using watchface studio. Is there a way to get the data from Wear OS app and display message count on the watchface? Any details or information would be greatly appreciated.

My guess is that you’d have to use a complication to do this. You could modify your app to provide a suitable complication service (assuming the messages aren’t just common notifications).

I think it’s possible to lock a complication slot to a particular complication service.

Since you’ve developed a Wear OS app, you may be willing to use WFF XML rather than, or in addition to, WFS. That can give you extra control over appearance (especially of complications).

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