Watch Face can't be installed on the Galaxy Watch 4 from the Android app

[VladimirWrites]

The reason for this is probably that Wear OS devices are not relying on the Wear OS app.

[netizen-ais]

AFAIK sideloading to the watch from the phone app is now a deprecated feature, you can go to the app listing in the phone's Play Store, and install to the watch from it (source)

[VladimirWrites]

@netizen-ais I am not sideloading it, I am just opening a PlayStore app on a watch using RemoteIntent.startRemoteActivity.
But before doing that I was just checking if the Wear OS app is installed on a phone. Since Samsung phones use their own app (afaik), I will just need to expand that check.

https://github.com/VladimirWrites/AnalogWatchFace/blob/master/app/src/main/java/com/vlad1m1r/watchface/MainActivity.kt

I am still keeping the Android app on the store because I am getting most of my downloads through it, and I am worried that removing it would impact the number of downloads.