
- Together with any watch face in “App drawer mode” (follow link for more information)
- Set as the watch face
Watch face mode is where Bubble Cloud can show its full power:
Here is the up-to-date feature list (⌚ marked items only available in watch face mode):
- 100 themes in 11 theme packs (some paid): recolor components and mix&match fonts, hands, dials, backgrounds from multiple themes
- Brightness control (toggle auto/manual, ⌚ long press to adjust ambient dimming level)
- Automatic day and night brightness switched at sunset and sunrise
- ⌚ Automatic ambient dimming at the same time next night
- Mini launcher (paginated app drawer + folders, hide apps) many different smart auto layouts for app drawer and favorite cloud
- Optional icon labels in the app drawer and folders
- Full icon pack support for all bubbles (all standard Android icon packs work!)
- Long press bubbles to edit colors, weight, other properties (direct link to app info and Play Store page)
- Special ambient mode with sweeping seconds hand (on all watches!) timer mode: vibration at every 15, 30 or 60 seconds
- Toggle phone and watch wifi, bluetooth and sound/ringmodes
- Sunset/sunrise LiveInfo*
- Date LiveInfo* (colors, layout configurable)
- Daily step count (adjustable daily goal with color indicator) + optional stand-up alert via plugin
- ⌚ Place favorite bubbles on watch face
- Double tap watch face for voice search (configurable)
- ⌚ Full complication support: unlimited number of complications (can be placed in app drawer and folders too)
- ⌚ Two layout options for complications
- ⌚ Five indicator options for range-type complications (colors and or rings)
- ⌚ Background image provider support with image retention and optional dimming
- Watch battery level (color indicator)
- Phone battery level (color indicator) + Find my phone function (raise phone to stop ringing)
- ⌚ Touch lock (long press for auto-lock)
- Dimmed theater mode with adjustable dimming (25% to 100% dimmed)
- Weather LiveInfo* (current local weather + other location or next day)
- Cloud of favorite contacts (call, text or email via multiple numbers)
- Multiple World time LiveInfo*
- ⌚ Unread/read notification count LiveInfo* (with color indicator)
- Launch Tasker tasks, toggle Smart Lights, open phone apps
- Change bubble content, weight and location via Tasker plugin
- ⌚ Hideable peek card displays long text complications (such as recent notification) – with wrist gesture detection
- Full rotating crown support for scrolling app drawer / adjusting peek card
- Dynamically added notification icons (phone status bar icons) with count bubbles via Notification icon plugin
- Remap long press (and double long press) of the main button and single + double press of secondary buttons (including accidental push alert and do-nothing options)
- ⌚ Override swipe behavior: app drawer on one side, configurable Quick Swipe Panel on the other side (Voice search, contact cloud, any folder or app)
- Sticky open: double tap app bubbles to automatically reopen them on tilt to wake (mark apps for auto-sticky: always opened in sticky mode)
- ⌚ One touch switching between analog and digital watch face
- Watch volume control (select media / notification / alarm volume, long press icon to mute/unmute)
- ⌚ Selective ambient mode: mark watch face bubbles to keep showing in ambient mode
- ⌚ Watch face background color based on the minute of the hour (two color scale options)
- ⌚ Optional outline font in ambient mode
- Charger sound (beep when successfully connected and if accidentally removed before fully charged)
- Rotate screen when charger connected
- ⌚ Always rotate the watch face
- Ring phone when watch is fully charged
- ⌚ Full control over status indicators (charging, flight mode, DND etc) and notification dot
- Full backup / restore to cloud storage
- Standalone app restore assistant after watch reset
- Drag and drop custom layout editor
- ⌚ Tap watch face edge to bring complications over the watch hands (if they are covered)
- ⌚ Optional ticking sound
- Use your own jpg/png files for hands, dials, themed bubbles, backgrounds (with square/circular crop tool built in)
* LiveInfo: bubble shows information instead of the app icon. Tapping the bubble still opens the app (i.e. weather app’s bubble can show weather, calendar app’s bubble shows the date etc)
Watch face mode
In this mode the app drawer is just a horizontal swipe away (just like it was in Android Wear 1.x) and the new Quick Swipe Panel shows up in the settings!
You can see the whole list of analog and digital watch face themes under “Free theme weekly” and download theme packs from the Play Store:
Active vs. inactive screen
- Interactive mode – when swipes and long presses are captured by Bubble Clouds
- Inactive mode – when only taps are captured by Bubble Clouds
- Ambient mode – when no input is handled by Bubble Clouds
- swipe down for the quick toggles
- swipe up for the notifications
- long press to pick a different face
- swipe horizontally for Google Assistant and Google Fit (these can be disabled in Expert settings, see below)
- open apps and other bubbles
- swipe horizontally for the app drawer (and Quick Swipe Panel if enabled)
- swipe vertically to show/hide peek card
- long press bubbles to edit them
- Make the inactive mode the dominant by disabling the expert option “Priority for Active cloud”
The watch will stay in inactive mode (swipes and long presses are handled by the OS) until you tap on the clock bubble -
Override the horizontal swipes even in inactive mode using one or both of two other expert options:
If you enable these options swiping horizontally on the inactive watch face will enter interactive mode, hence overriding the default WearOS functions (Assistant and/or Fit)
- By default swiping left to right on the watch face in interactive mode takes you to the app drawer (archive cloud) and optionally the brightness control
- You can add a swipe area on the right to left swipe to access voice search (Google Assistant) and optionally the volume control. This is called Quick Swipe Panel in my app → video
A) A little background
I call it “inactive” or “ambient” mode when this layer is hidden. In the inactive screen you can access all the regular watch face functionality: swipe down for the quick settings, swipe up to access notifications, sideways to switch watch faces.
We can toggle between active and inactive by tapping the clock bubble, and recently I also added vertical swipe gestures too to switch between the two modes. So the first vertical swipe will toggle to inactive, then the regular Wear OS functionality kicks in. This is still not ideal, but maybe a little bit more intuitive to swipe twice instead of a tap-and-swipe.
Depending on the watch-face layout, you can even toggle the position of the hands and bubbles on the watch face. Tapping outside the ring of bubbles will bring the bubbles to the foreground (even over the peek card), Tapping again, or tapping in the center of the watch face will switch to inactive mode: (I call this the “reveal” mode)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1n3IGhCOG8&index=13&list=PL0wrCqIpYbB4anPdhRAtyx4ixxi6hUxMN
[Theme shown is from pack #4]
Unfortunately there is no other way to implement all this increased functionality. Hopefully understanding how it works makes it easier to use.
- we get to override the horizontal swipe to change watch face
- we get notification peek cards (see below)
- we get unlimited number of watch face complications which can even be put in the archive cloud and folders
- the Bubble Cloud watch face is extremely battery friendly, our watches will last longer than with other watch faces
(except that your watch becomes more useful, and since you will be using it for more…) - you can apply many different watch face styles I call “1-click themes”, and even mix different components of these themes
B) Notifications
C) Possible workarounds



Bubble Clouds has a card-type complication which now allows you to display long-text complications (such active notifications!) in the peek-card format that Android Wear 1.5 used to have. You can add

If using Bubble Clouds as your watch face you can add the peek card using the “Add complication” menu item:


Make sure to select “Recent notification” under the “General” group:



D) Other possible solutions





Select General → Unread notification count. Then press the star to move it to the watch–face (favorites)




