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Create a simple Samsung Galaxy Watch companion .NET app — Part 1
Learn how to send data from your android app to your galaxy watch
In this tutorial series, I want to show you a simple example of how you can create a Tizen .NET companion app that allows you to receive data from your android app. This can be especially beneficial if you want to provide your user an extra possibility to quickly access important data from your android app without the need to take out their smartphone.
The Tizen app will be written with Xamarin while the android app will be in native android Kotlin code. This article covers the first part of this tutorial where we will talk about the android app part. The second part of the tutorial will cover the Xamarin Tizen app.
Provider versus Consumer
As the first step, we need to understand the difference between the provider and the consumer app. Both apps, Tizen and Android can act as provider, consumer, or even as a hybrid between both concepts.
Provider: As the name already implies, the provider provides the data to the consumer. Within the process of establishing the connection between the apps, the provider has the passive part and waits for a service connection request. When it receives a new service connection…
