NodeApi and MessageApi deprecated, can't build APK about cordova-androidwear

[tgardner]

Hey @ragcsalo , if you've written a fix for the issue, I'll happily accept a PR for it. Please send it through so I can take a look. Cheers

[ragcsalo]

If anyone could make a usable fork, please do it!!! I couldn't find any other AndroidWear plugin... shame....

[ragcsalo]

After 2 days of searching, I finally found a solution (although I'm a beginner in coding Java). :-)
Here is my fork, which works with the latest Google Play Services (v11.8.0):
https://github.com/ragcsalo/cordova-androidwear

[TwanoO67]

Nice :) Could you do a Pull Request for that ?

[ragcsalo]

I think #tgardner has not been updating the plugin for 2 years now... I contacted him but no response yet. :-/

Update: welcome back, @tgardner :-)))))))

[ragcsalo]

Dear @tgardner :-) Please take a look at my fork: https://github.com/ragcsalo/cordova-androidwear
The only file I had to modify is src/android/WearProviderService.java
You can copy it to your release :-)

The MessageApi is also deprecated, but looks like it still can be used for a while... but if you're good at Java coding, you could replace it with the MessageClient class. Here is the release note of the latest Google Play Services, which mentions the deprecation of some Wearable classes:
https://developers.google.com/android/guides/releases

[tgardner]

Hi @ragcsalo, no point merging something that is already deprecated. I had a look at it this morning, and adjusted for the MessageClient implementation. Also noticed that the GooglePlayApi was deprecated in favour of the CapabilityClient.
Can you take a look at https://github.com/tgardner/cordova-androidwear/tree/dev and tell me if that fixes your issue? Note the breaking change mentioned in the README. I created a dev branch on the example project too if you're unsure of anything.

Let me know and I'll merge it, cheers.

[ragcsalo]

Thanks for the update! :-)
Unfortunately I get multiple errors when building the APK in Android Studio.

AndroidWearPlugin.java (line 29):
Cannot resolve symbol 'WearMessageApi'
Cannot resolve symbol 'WearMessageListener'

In multiple lines:
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Have you tried to build the APK in Android Studio?

[tgardner]

Hi @ragcsalo, I wrote it in Android Studio. I'm guessing you're on Java 1.7 or lower. I've updated the branch, so it should be backwards compatible. Please pull down the latest and try again. Thanks

[ragcsalo]

Thanks, it builds now without errors. :-) I've added the messaging capability resource to the watch app (wear.xml), but it doesn't work yet... do I have to change the Java code of the watch app as well?

[tgardner]

The message path has changed to "/NewMessage". Failing that, take a look at the example project at https://github.com/tgardner/cordova-androidwear-example/tree/dev

[ragcsalo]

Thanks, I will try soon. :-) Would it be difficult to include the possibility to send data with the DataApi? We could send assets like images to the watch... it would be great!!!! :-)

[tgardner]

Maybe in the future, I'm very time poor at the moment. Feel free to take my example of the MessageClient and CapabilityClient implementations, and apply it to the DataClient as well. Always welcome pull requests :)

[tgardner]

Fixed in 1.0.1