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I've been playing around with Android Wear and making some dummy apps. What I've noticed is that Android Wear doesn't seem to show the notifications that are ongoing,i.e., notifications with setOngoing(true). Any way to show these notifications on Wear???

d3m0li5h3r
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    I don't think an ongoing notification that cannot be cancelled would be functional on Android wear. Notifications, in a way, on the wear serves as apps. How irritating is a app that doesn't want to close? If you want to do this I think you would have to use the update feature. – the-ginger-geek Mar 20 '14 at 11:16

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barkside's answer is correct. I recently wrote an article describing the steps in details, but basically:

  1. Create a wearable app with a service implementing WearableListenerService.
  2. Send a data item from the handheld app using the Data API.
  3. In the wearable app's service, handle receiving the data item & build an ongoing notification upon receipt.

A sample app is available here: https://github.com/doubleencore/WearOngoingNotificationSample

And step-by-step directions are available here: http://www.doubleencore.com/2014/07/create-custom-ongoing-notification-android-wear/

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On-going notifications will not show up on Wearable devices. Instead you have to implement a Wear App on the wearable and show cards from there.

barkside
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Our notifications show up with setOngoing(true) and Service.startForeground but they didn't on the first day the SDK was out, might've been an update to the Android Wear Preview app?

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  • So... I have the same problem now, my ongoing notification just doesn't appear with startForeground... Did it start working for you by any chance @d3m0li5h3r ? – BoD Apr 24 '14 at 15:48
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    I just posted a related question in the G+ community. Waiting for someone from the team to reply... https://plus.google.com/+BenoitBoDLubek/posts/4we2mWEo8vy – BoD Apr 25 '14 at 13:59
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I haven't tried yet "playing" with Android Wear SDK, but I guess that if there is a way to make ongoing undismissable notifications - it should be in conjuction with the Service.startForeground() Service method.. exactly like it works with the hosting android device...

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Tal Kanel
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If you using service to play music, Wear takes notification from RemoteControlClientCompat and keep it ongoing while music is playing. It will looks like Play Music does.

Konstantin Konopko
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