Hi there, jus wanted to say I have finished my first wear OS app, which is an RSS reader. I wanted to thank you all very much for your generous help. The app is available for open testing and if you would like a promo code, please direct message me here on Slack. Pictures in thread. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.strangerweather.news

Congrats on getting to the end of your first App - Obviously we would be interested in any feedback on your experience. I hope your app is successful 🙂

Thank you very much for your good wishes! Is there any specific feedback that you are looking for or just more generally? I'll start thinking. 😉

Congrats Nat!

@John Nichol In terms of feedback, what I found the hardest was the fact that much of the documentation is not made for Jetpack Compose. For instance, I struggled quite a bit with the tile. I spent ages trying to make this work: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/tiles/get_started#create_a_tile only to find out that it's actually really easy with Compose... In the same way, while the samples are really very helpful, when it came to the DataLayer one, I was not sure how to implement it with Compose. Because I am used to only having one activity, I wasn't sure whether I was meant to create another activity or to use the code in my MainActivity. One disclaimer is that I am not a professional; this is a hobby for me and I don't excel at it! 😉

Out of interest, what did you end up with for your Compose tile? 👀

Do you mean what the code looks like?

Yes/how far you got with it.

In the end it was as simple as this:

class MainTileService : GlanceTileService() {

    @Composable
    override fun Content() {
        val imageSize = LocalSize.current.times(1f)
        Column(
            modifier = GlanceModifier.fillMaxSize().background(Color(0xff17244E)).clickable(
                    actionStartActivity<MainActivity>()
                ),
            horizontalAlignment = Alignment.CenterHorizontally,
            verticalAlignment = Alignment.CenterVertically
        ) {
            Image(
                provider = ImageProvider(R.drawable.logo),
                modifier = GlanceModifier.size(imageSize.width, imageSize.height),
                contentScale = ContentScale.FillBounds,
                contentDescription = "Logo"
            )
        }
    }
}

ahh fair enough 😅

I love Compose lol

Glance is currently in alpha, and we recommend Tiles Material for building tiles at this time. Fair enough though, the API isn't as friendly as Compose

Yeah, this was a bit daunting lol:

).build()
                    ).build()
                ).build()
            ).build()
        ).build())