Kiwi for Android Wear for Android
Last update: Fall 2014
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Kiwi for Android Wear lets you control your phone by moving your hand while your phone stays in your pocket. Choose from motions like Karate chop, uppercut, thumb click and swipe, and waving your hand left and right.
Key features:
- Dismiss annoying calls with a simple hand gesture
- Use motions to start/stop music playback or skip tracks when your music is playing
- Activate voice control using a simple motion
- Use Tasker to create your own actions!
More motions coming soon!
User Permissions:
Internet & Access Network State: for crash analytics and synchronizing motions from our server
Read Phone State & Call Phone: for detecting phone calls and suspending motion detection while you're in a call
Wake lock: Only for submitting analytics reliably
Location: For Hailo cab request
*Might not work with Google Music on 4.4.4 because it doesn't respond to the standard Media Play/Pause key event.
Doesn't work with My Huawei watch. Not sure if it's my watch fault but I think not because Wear geastures work perfectly fine
What would be nice is if you could it so that the app only responds to really slow or fast movements. Also a time limit after you last action would save a ton of battery.
Does not work on huawei watch. Gestures do not register at all.
Seems to not work on my LG G Waatch. Lags quite a bit and doesn't control Spotify.
A fantastic proof of concept. This is the future.
I have tried the regular procedures but to no avail. LG G watch R wear. I have also emailed the dev yet no response. Maybe it only works with limited music players, I only use Google play music and that should be compatible for sure. Anyway if it worked I would rate it high. SHAME.
This is an amazing concept... when combined with something like Tasker, at least. Problem is: this doesn't seem to actually work AT ALL -- not on a Smartwatch 3, anyway. When I check the score for motions, they look essentially random, no matter what motion I make. Maybe it needs a calibration option, or maybe it reads the wrong sensor on different smartwatches? Who knows. For now though, it's a non-functional masterpiece ;)
I would gladly pay for this, but it need more things like rotate left, and rotate right, but when I want to lover my volume when I bring my hand back up it brings the volume back up. (I have messed with the sensitivity as much as I can)Could we have something like it has a mic sensor so when the mix is covered certain motions would be enabled. Also I have a problem with the play and pause music doesn't work with Google play radio :(.Has a ton of potential!
I really really really love this idea, however on my Sony Smartwatch 3 I had trouble getting the app to actually react without making everything super sensitive but at that point it reacted to every movement I made.. Evern when I didn't move it would react.
Not accurate enough on my Moto 360. Rating 4 stars for potential. If you can get this tech to work 90% of the time honestly I think Google would offer $$$ to buy you out.
This thing kills battery. Also, the settings for gesture sensitivity could use some improvements for clarity reasons. (Threshold and trigger...?) I know it's still beta, so I'll be patiently waiting on this app! It's truly ingenious. Love the little gifs for the instructions, BTW!
This was a really promising app that fell short and didn't deliver. The gesture engine itself is now pretty good but the app is buggy as hell. It crashes a lot and requires you to re-open the app and toggle settings for gestures to be recognised thus rendering it useless. Many promises of updates from Devs, no update for months. Devs don't reply. Seems like vaporware
But the thumb click option is too sensitive to just about every hand movement :(
GwatchR. Doesn't work more than one in twenty gestures.
So much promise, it detects the gesture fine after messing with the values, but the app does not seem to save the settings, and cannot activate tasker commands
This is an amazing idea but it is a bummer it doesn't work that well on Google music with 4.4.4 (hopefully I will get lollipop soon!) ... Otherwise this app works great but battery could be improved.
It's to sensitive. Just twitching my thumb pauses songs
The app does what it says and thats very cool but i really hope you guys add a setting to change the default apps or i wouldnt mind spending some money on a version with more customizations
App is amazing and surprises me how well the actions are recognized. Tasker Fix: Make sure to have installed Tasker before this app
Some gestures work well while others are non-functonal. The rotate wrist works only during calibration and the karate chop is at best intermittent. Can we not see some more basic gestures using the gravity sensors conjunction with the accelerometer?
Nice for tricks...could do with an faq to work with tasker..don't know if doing something wrong..linked gesture to a task in tasker and it just doesn't fire up for me :-( standard things like launching music seem great although a little sensitive...If tasker links properly 5 star..amazing potential
As a lot of people are saying; this is an amazing concept and it has a lot of potential for being insanely useful. However, it doesn't work very well, if at all, for me at the moment. I'm using a Moto 360 and a Note 4. In it's current state, the battery drain on my Moto 360 is horrendous. Custom gestures, or at least more to choose from would also be nice. I'm going to keep an eye on this app as it matures.
First of all, this app is amazing! But I'm a little disappointed at the fact that the music controls only work on the default music player. Is there a way to make it work with others? If so this would be a 5+ star app :)
This is an amazing concept... when combined with something like Tasker, at least. Problem is: this doesn't seem to actually work AT ALL -- not on a Smartwatch 3, anyway. When I check the score for motions, they look essentially random, no matter what motion I make. Maybe it needs a calibration option, or maybe it reads the wrong sensor on different smartwatches? Who knows. For now though, it's a non-functional masterpiece ;)
(Moto 360, Galaxy S5 4.4) Got a few gestures to work one time and then never again. Spent a lot of time trying to tweak the settings too. Bummer. I was really excited when I saw this. Keep working on it!!! X)
Can you guys make this app compatible with 3rd party app? 3* for you at the moment but I can see potential
great idea unfortunately the only gesture I've had any luck with is the thumb click. Moto 360
Moto X (1st Gen) and Moto 360. After tweaking settings the app had produced mixed result. Wrist turn will sometimes work like a charm and others not at all unless I hold the position longer even with trigger set to 1. Sometimes I will get completely delayed responses and sometimes nothing will register making me have to force close the app and restart it. Currently the notification has disappeared from my phone and I'm unable to move sliders into the off position. Still looking forward to improvement.
When i looked at this apps description I was already impressed. I have tried out a few of its abilities and used tasker to create some more. I believe this app has some great potential and is a must have for every smartwatch to make it really useful. The only thing I had some trouble with is the triggering of the app, except for the hand twist most of the gestures don't really work well for me. Perhaps this is because I wear the watch on my left hand? I'm using the LG watch R. Great work developers!
Tried tweaking. Ive a note 3 lollipop and a Moto360 and none of the motions seem too. Work has potential.
I have tried the regular procedures but to no avail. LG G watch R wear. I have also emailed the dev yet no response. Maybe it only works with limited music players, I only use Google play music and that should be compatible for sure. Anyway if it worked I would rate it high. SHAME.
Amazing idea, good app, limited usability and high frequency of no trigger or involuntary triggers (no matter the sensitivity settings). Tested with GS4 (5.0) and LG G watch R (5.0.1). I am really looking forward to a fully workable version with more motions that fire accurately. Obvious missing motions: 1 clap the hands, 2 claps etc... the shocks should be recognisable from the sensor patterns ? I can't wait to be able to turn off my smart lighting and trigger sleep tracking by the clap of my hands.
The thumb click option is the coolest! Even better for party tricks.
Great app and idea, but please, add more actions.
Id love this for changing tracks in the car, but doesn't work on my moto 360 at all. Nothing detects, no matter what the settings. I've had the thumb click work once unreliable but the swipes haven't detected even once.
If the music control is working and also other bug fixes
And NO you DO NOT need to integrate ALL Tasker like apps. ALL YOU NEED TO DO IS LET US LAUNCH A SHORTCUT. All the apps (INCLUDING tasker) can execute actions via launching a shortcut. So please add that. And stop being so selfish about Tasker. There are apps MUCH MUCH better like Automagic for example.
App installs and detects motion on Moto 360, but does not trigger events. Sad. Sounds really cool. Was really interested to use with Tasker - glad to see developers building Tasker support built-in. 2 stars for concept... Edit: Well, after update the app finally notices my Moto 360, but implementation is flaky at best. It makes no sense and simply triggers randomly. Even more frustrating than before.
Love the concept and would love it to work but on my sony smart watch 3 it dosent seem to pick up the gestures please please fix this if you can.
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This was a really promising app that fell short and didn't deliver. The gesture engine itself is now pretty good but the app is buggy as hell. It crashes a lot and requires you to re-open the app and toggle settings for gestures to be recognised thus rendering it useless. Many promises of updates from Devs, no update for months. Devs don't reply. Seems like vaporware