[Samsung Galaxy Watch] gruuvin:
Wow! Sorry about your leg! Between that and trying to be a software developer, that has all got to be quite difficult.

I think this could possibly be one of the most useful apps on a Samsung watch (Bixby is not). I also think Samsung is not at all interested in a good working Google Assistant for the watch, because they've invested so much in Bixby.

I'm sorry people take my comments the wrong way, because they don't see the point of view of the average Galaxy Watch owner that doesn't hang around here. I'm a software developer (API, not UI; sorry), but I know that getting people to use software is harder than it is to make software, and getting them to pay is even more difficult.

People would pay for this app. Period. Because it's a 'killer' app. The problem, though, is that this app is not accessible by 99% of Samsung watch owners.

By 'not accessible', I mean at least two barriers to entry:

1. Unless a person reads xda forums, and specifically this thread, they won't know what to search the Samsung store for and therefore won't find this app. If they want a Google Assistant app on their watch, they won't find it by browsing or searching, unless they know to specifically search 'gassist'. Samsung does not help the 99% of watch owners discover that this app exists. Lost exposure. There needs to be a way to have a bunch of different search keywords that cause this app to come up in the results.

2. The remaining 1% of watch owners that might discover this app will try to install it, and some of them will fail to get the credentials json properly imported. These are not difficult things to accomplish for us who are reasonably technical, but sadly, the money isn't with the technical 1%! The average user stops at creating a Google cloud api account and project. This is far too difficult for most people. It frightens them!

The money is with the other 99 people out of 100 who are willing to pony up $5 or $10 for one of the most useful apps this watch SHOULD have, but that Samsung doesn't include.

Software development for Android is a labor of love. Most Android developers make little to nothing. Only the very best, and easy to access, and easy to install and easy to use apps make any substantial bread.

I have been quietly rooting for this app to go viral. I want to PAY for it. I've installed it and found that it is very near ready for stable. It needs a solid and trouble-free install process that involves importing api credentials automatically in a way that the user never even sees it happen (user only enters Google username and password, but there would need to be Google api calls in the background that automate getting the secrets json imported to the phone). Maybe you can reach out to other developers on xda that have experience using the Google cloud api and how to possibly automate secrets json import.

I don't think the UI needs more work at this point. Maybe later on, but most watch apps don't have much fancy UI, and should the phone app (it only needs a UI for install, the rest only shows you it is running). I think the installation process needs to be made very simple for the average user, the app needs to then move out of beta, and finally become very easy to find in Samsung's app store. The free version should work for a small number of queries for the first month, so all non-paying users can try it enough to see that it works well, then charge $5 to $10 for unlimited queries.

I would go one further than Nicholb, and suggest to post an impossible-to-miss donate request at the top of post #1. Rattle that can, because you worked for it.

Man! All I can say, after all of that is, GOOD LUCK! You've made a great app, it needs a bit of tweaking for prime time!

I wish you the best!

-Rob