How can I test ambient mode in Android Wear emulator?
I need to see how does my app render on different watches while in ambient mode.
Seems ambient mode is different on Moto 360 and Sony Smartwatch 3.
To test Ambient Mode in an emulator, you need to do the following:
In the Emulator, Go to settings and Turn ON "Always-on Screen: ON".
While emulator window is active Press "F7" (F7 emulates the power button) then press the power button to turn on ambient mode.
Hope this helps.
On recent Wear emulators you can just press the power button in the associated control panel. The power button within the emulator frame acts as a press on the main button, eg opening the list of apps.
Not your main question but hopefully this helps you in regards to the differences you're seeing between the Moto 360 and SmartWatch 3 ambient modes:
I believe what you're referring to is ambient mode versus low-bit ambient mode. Google covers some of it in their developer documentation but it doesn't seem to be mentioned anywhere else. I did a huge write-up for the community based on my own research since I was frustrated with the lack of info (it's mostly written from a consumer perspective though):
http://www.reddit.com/r/AndroidWear/comments/2qb3ia/clarifying_ambient_modes_everything_you_could/
The latest Wear emulator lets you click in the top of the emulator window to toggle between full power and ambient modes (the shaded section in the screenshot).
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I've been absent for some times from WearOS development. Now I am back and I have one annoying issue with the latest emulator - it goes automatically in Ambient Mode after few seconds. Not just my app, but the OS itself.
I Checked into the settings, tried clicking on the top of the window, but no luck - is there a settings for this or I should file a bug?
Set the emulator to be charging.
Make sure Settings - Developer options - Stay awake when charging is enabled.(default)
PS: Click Settings - System - About - Build number quickly to enable Developer options.
A lot of older posts about AVD manager and its Android emulators suggest that device screen can be set to full screen by using Alt+Enter. In my case - it does not work. Neither does F11 or other shortcut key do the trick. To sum up what I want to know is, does the AVD manager emulators even support such thing? If yes, how, if not - are there any workarounds for it. The target device is a touchscreen monitor, so running in full screen is most important. Bonus question - is it possible display the toolbar with control icons (for controlling rotation, volume, hardware keys etc.) separately from main window in case the device screen is in fullscreen mode?
Android 4.2 has a new 'interactive screensaver' option called Daydream which works when your device is either docked or charging or both.
I want to enable this feature ALWAYS, so it works even when the device is NOT docked or charging.
Anyone know how to do this?
You just defined what a daydream is. And you want to do something outside of it's definition. So I would say don't use a Daydream then.
Just make a full screen activity, or a live wallpaper, or install it as an app launcher and just take over the desktop.
In the Android emulator, I click the Power button on the right corner.
The following screen keep run, it seems I can't power off the emulator. Right?
This is the stackoverflow that comes up when you search for "android 12 emulator power off"
You might search for that because Android 12 has taken over the "long-press the power button" gesture and turned that into "Start Google Assistant" with no ability to override it.
So how do you turn off Android 12 emulators? Not with the power button.
Drag the notification bar down twice so it is fully expanded, and you'll see Android 12 added a software power button to the bottom middle of the quick settings.
Long-press that, and you get the power menu you expected prior to Android 11 from a long-press on the hardware (or emulated) power button.
Cheers
UPDATE:
This was answer many many years ago. things have changed since then, and you are better off with the built in AVDs in Android Studio.
You can give it a try to Genymotion, it is a full OS system with different configurations, is very fast and you can turn it off if you need, is a virtual machine.
In Samsung Galaxy S2, where can I find the option to keep screen active? I've already searched through Menu->Configuration->Application->Development (and every other menu), but the Development option is missing in Application view (the view is a kind of application manager, not option settings).
I know that there is a lot of issues about keeping the amoled display active (i.e. pixel burn), but I'm in really need of this feature, as it is becoming very anoying to tap my device screen every time it is close to turn inactive.
Bellow is my Setting->Developer Options screen-shot:
Special Note: I've ready somewhere that the manufacturers had removed the option to keep screen active. Is this a true information?
Thanks in advance!
Try Setting the value programmatically using below code
Settings.System.putInt(getActivity().getContentResolver(),Settings.System.STAY_ON_WHILE_PLUGGED_IN,(BatteryManager.BATTERY_PLUGGED_AC | BatteryManager.BATTERY_PLUGGED_USB));