Samsung Galaxy Watch Sideloads 3 Unofficial Apps for Added Features
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Updated · How-To Geek · Jul 19
Samsung Galaxy Watch Sideloads 3 Unofficial Apps for Added Features
3 articles · Updated · How-To Geek · Jul 19
Summary
Three sideloaded apps stood out on Samsung Galaxy Watch: Wear Button Remapper, Wearable Widgets and Google Clock, each adding functions not officially offered on the watch.
Wireless debugging and a phone-side installer such as Bugjaeger or GeminiMan WearOS Manager let users push APK files to the watch, avoiding the impracticality of downloading them on the small screen.
Wear Button Remapper can override Samsung’s fixed Home-button Wallet shortcut, while Wearable Widgets brings phone widgets to the watch after sideloading both watch and phone apps.
Google Clock installs cleanly and adds alarms, stopwatch, timer and working widgets, but alarm syncing with a Pixel phone still does not work.
Facebook Messenger can run if users install a v7a 360-480 DPI APK, though the article says the interface scales poorly and is usable only in a pinch.