Android Wear Specific Notification

Question

The WearableNotifications.Builder setLocalOnly method can be used for displaying a notification on a phone only, and not mirror it to a Wear device.

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Answer 1

There is no way to specify an entire notification should not be displayed locally. However, the final notification extensions API (released 6/25), there is a way to specify actions which should only appear on a wearable.

To do this, add the actions wrapped in a WearableExtender:

NotificationCompat.Builder builder = new NotificationCompat.Builder();
builder.extend(new NotificationCompat.WearableExtender()
    .addAction(new NotificationCompat.Action(
        R.drawable.reply, "Reply", pendingIntent)));