Exclusive to XDA: Alpha Release of Gear Notification Extender(Updated: 3/23/2015) - Samsung Gear S

As the title calls out this is an ALPHA release of my new app: Gear Notification Extender
FULL DISCLOSURE: THIS VERSION WILL EXPIRE 7 DAYS FROM INSTALL. THERE IS A PAID APP IN THE PLAY STORE . IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THAT PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD.
DISCLAIMER: THIS IS ALPHA CODE. IT HAS BUGS, IT MAY MISS NOTIFICATION, IT MAY REPLY TO THE WRONG PERSON.
I WILL NOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR ANY LOSS OF DATA OR HARM TO YOUR PHONE OR GEAR DUE TO THE DOWNLOADING OR USE OF THIS APPLICATION!!
IF YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE HELPING TO WORK OUT THESE BUGS PLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD.
Ok now that you know the risks, lets get to the good part:
What is this?
This app will allow Google Hangouts, GMAIL( and in theory many more) to interact with your Gear S in a more advanced fashion. To be specific you will now be able to reply to Hangouts and GMail messages from your Gear S.
This app integrates with the normal notification model of the Gear S, so these notifications will be in the same place your current notifications are and you will interact with them in a very similar fashion. This is not an attempt to turn our Gear S into a Android Wear Interface.
Things to keep in mind that will likely never change:
1) Notifications Reply capability is lost when my app gets forcefully stopped or you reboot your phone. You can either have old notifications dismissed from the gear each time the service starts or you can leave them there, but reply will not work on old notifications.
2) As stated above this is NOT a Hangout client, you cannot initiate conversations from this app.
How to Install:
1) Install the APK on your phone
2) Open the app on your phone
3) Enable Notifications for this app(First option on the app screen)
4) Set preferences.
5) Enable Gear Notification Extender in the Gear Manager Notifications window
6) Disable Notification for any apps in gear manager that you want going through Gear Notification Extender(Though you can leave both enabled, you'll get your notification twice).
7) Some Apps(Hangouts 2.5) need android wear application installed before they add the proper actions to the notification. I suggest installing it from google play.
8) Enjoy
Please See the attached screen shots if you are having issues installing.
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Features:
Sound/Vibrate control
Special Options for Hangouts and GMAIL
Ability to select which application you get notifications for.
Ability to have Gear Extender look for notifications with actions that the stock app will ignore and handle these notifications even without selecting the app specificially.
Links in messages turned into actions in notification that you can send to Opera
All Actions that are available for a Notification in Android are turned into actions on the Gear. Main action(Usually Reply) gets Icon, all the rest are in the option menu.
All notification with Reply also get the hangouts Preselected text template replies(User defined coming soon).
All Notification have "Open On Phone Action"
Images in Hangouts will come through
Dismiss/Mark as read capabilities.
Avatars can be displayed as backgrounds for Notifications, Also works for music apps that put album art in the notification window DO NOT USE
Handling of Ongoing Notifications like Music Notifications. Will update existing notification in Gear Extender rather than generating new items, to avoid clutter.
Debugger option to allow for testing.
User defined text templates(Your additions are added to the top of the list pulled from Hangouts)
Ability to pull actions out of advanced notification(Google Music, Amazon Music...) "Dig Deep"
Option to have text templates or keyboard reply as default
Workaround for certain languages(Turkish) due to Samsung Bug
Fixed issue with reading notification on watch causes phone and watch notification to disappear(When you had both Dismiss options on). Should now leave the notification on the watch even though the notification on the phone is dismissed.
Better support for other IM applications
Quick fix for some new bugs introduced with text templates
Fixed issue with GMAIL labels not pulling the email bofy
Per-app settings
Smart Relay Support
Known bugs/Limitations:
1) All notifications handled in Gear Notification Extender go in one bucket in the Gear S Notification section. I am working on trying to break them out by source, and maybe even by sender, but no promises.
2) Currently when you read a dismiss a notification on you phone, your options are to leave it on the gear or remove it from the gear, unfortunately I have no been able to simply mark them as "read".
3) Some Languages on some phones seem to be incompatible and cause the the notifications on the watch to be blank.(Workaround now included)
4) I'm sure lots more.
Demo Expiration 7 Days from install.
Version 1.6.1 4/11/2015
- Add Sub Text Option
- Add Remove duplicates option
- Add support for Cloud Magic Email
- FIx issue with crashing when replying to dead notifications
Version 1.6.0 3/23/2015
- Fix for Smart Relay
- Fix for Calendar
- Add ability to specify default action index in per-app settings for "Dig Deep" actions. Primarily for Music players to specify which action button you want as the default.
- Added Notification Actions in "Dig Deep" parsing. Allows for actions that show in the notification panel to work with Gear S.
Version 1.4.9 2/13/2015
- Fix for GMail on Lollipop
Version 1.4.7 1/27/2015
- Per App Settings: Long press on the application in the application list to bring up settings for that app. You can use this for Hangouts/Gmail if you uncheck Hangouts on the main screen.
- Support for ENotify Email Client
- Experimental: Number of Vibration and Sounds
- New app specific setting to turn off notifications without actions(should help eliminate duplicate and garbage notifications)
- Bug fixes.
- New Demo Mode(good for 7 Days from Install)
Version 1.4 1/14/2015
-Can now reply to notifications as long as they were not dismissed individually on the phone. if they are grouped and you dismiss the group, reply should still work
-Instead of constantly updating the event on the watch removing the actions instead if you attempt to reply to a dead notification a new message will be sent to the watch letting you know. For now all actions will cause this. I will fix this to allow links and other action added by my app to still work shortly.
-Grouped messages will now be broken out and details displayed, which was the main reason for dismissing from phone to force ungrouping
- No replies should get lost without an error and more importantly should never go to the wrong recipient.
- The occasional lockup on some emails should be resolved
- Better whatsapp support
- Pausing notifications when not connected preference. If this preference is selected then when you reconnect your watch it will not get all the notifications it missed when it was disconnected.
- Cleaned up the Dismiss on Watch setting to dismiss all notifications for that notiification group(sender).
- Removed Dismiss on Phone settings as this only leads to dead notifications. I will look at better ways to do this in the future.
Version 1.3 1/9/2015
Bug Fix to remove reply action on dismissed notifications
- Most apps had an issue replying to dismissed notifications. I will be looking to provide better implementation for this in the future, but it's better to remove the action than to have them not work right.
- You will only be able to reply to last notification for a given application and only until the notification is dismissed on the phone.
- Sorry for any inconvenience, but it wasn't reliable the way it was anyway.
Version 1.2 1/1/2015
Significantly improved memory management. App should now have a lower memory footprint, and should have more stable memory usage. Should no longer get out of memory that would stop notifications from sending.
New feature to mute recurring ongoing notifications, such as video/phone calls that run timers. Updates still go, but no sound or vibrate.
New feature to dismiss notifications from phone as they are sent to watch. This will stop most notification groupings, which is what stops us from being able to reply.
Better Icon coloration.
I also switched back to having the title icon on the watch have the icon from the last notification rather than the generic Gear Extender Icon.
What's Coming?
1) Obviously Bug fixes
2) Better formatting with images.
3) Better GMAIL formatting.
4) You tell me what you want.
Download:
View attachment GearNotificationExtender.apk
Official App Now available on Google Play(1.4.9 posting soon, but you guys get to test first if you want), Galaxy Store coming soon:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.enhancemytoys.android.gear.notifications

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Thanks. ...

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Thank you for your work, looking forward to updates. I have been using Notify Gear, but seems hit or miss. Hoping this works out. Would prefer to stick to the stock notifications on the Gear just with the ability to reply.

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Looking forward to checking it out when I get a GS.

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Hi,
i downloaded your app 5 times with different Browsers and with the Phone too, but always i get a parsing failure if i try to install it.
How can i fix it?
Thank you

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FLJ said:
Hi,
i downloaded your app 5 times with different Browsers and with the Phone too, but always i get a parsing failure if i try to install it.
How can i fix it?
Thank you
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What phone do you have and what version of android are you running? You probably don't have KitKat? I'll look but I think 4.4 is the minimum os version this can support.

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Sounds promising, will be interested to see how this develops. Thanks for your efforts so far.
Sent from my SM-T705 using Tapatalk

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gottahavit said:
What phone do you have and what version of android are you running? You probably don't have KitKat? I'll look but I think 4.4 is the minimum os version this can support.
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Thank you... So i flash Android 4.4 to my Galaxy S3 and now I install it :good:

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Not sure what happened, but when I woke up this morning after installing last night my watch stayed hot and would not function properly at all. Ended up having to restore the watch

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ejdavis said:
Not sure what happened, but when I woke up this morning after installing last night my watch stayed hot and would not function properly at all. Ended up having to restore the watch
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Very strange. I can't imagine how it could be related to the app. The app has no watch component, except the stock notifications. The only way I could see that is if the the phone was continually sending notifications.
I've been running on my phone for days.
Out of curiosity do you have "Other" Selected?
Was your phone hot? or irregularly drained?

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Wake me up when this is out of Alpha beta and on primetime

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Yes exactly, it was extremely hot and battery drained very fast

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ejdavis said:
Yes exactly, it was extremely hot and battery drained very fast
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The phone or the watch or both?

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Phone got hot...battery drained fast is h... I won't this app bad

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ejdavis said:
Phone got hot...battery drained fast is h... I won't this app bad
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Ahh the phone did, well at least thats in the realm of possibilty. I havent had this issue. What phone do you have? Can you post a screenshot of your settings screen in the app.

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Sorry meant watch is doing on that...

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I know everyone has diff experiences, but mine hasn't acted wired in any way. It seems to be working as advertised at present. Just looking forward to it being developed more. I have had apps, not quite sure which one it is yet, that seems to lag and stop my watch from working, I want to say it is one of the news apps. but I ended up having to reset the watch, and uninstalling and re-installing Samsung Gear to get things working again and not restore anything heh.

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can work with gear2 .....thanks

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re-2007 said:
can work with gear2 .....thanks
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No this will not work with the Gear 2. I have a version I am working on for the gear 2, but it is not as far along as this one.
Sorry.

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ejdavis said:
Sorry meant watch is doing on that...
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Since Nothing actually installs on the watch for this to work the on;y way this app could affect your watch is if it was just continually sending notifications to the watch, which you would notice.
I'll keep an eye out for possibilities, but I'm thinking some other app is the culprit.