Connect Galaxy Watch with Android Studio

To debug your Wear OS app, configure a Galaxy Watch by following these steps.

Connect your watch to Wi-Fi

  1. Go to Settings > Connection > Wi-Fi and make sure that Wi-Fi is enabled.
  2. From the list of available Wi-Fi networks, choose and connect to the same one your PC is using.

Turn on Developer options and adjust its settings

If there is no menu in the watch Settings > Developer options, turn on the watch’s Developer options.

  1. On your watch, go to Settings > About watch > Software and tap Software version 5 times.

  1. Upon successful activation of the Developer options, a toast message is displayed as on the image below.

  1. Afterwards, Developer options is visible under Settings.

  1. Tap Developer options and enable ADB debugging.

  1. In Developer options, find Wireless debugging.

  1. When prompted to allow debugging over this Wi-Fi network – tap Always allow on this network and tap Allow.

  1. Go back to Developer options and select Turn off automatic Wi-Fi.

Connect your Galaxy Watch to Android Studio

  1. Go to Settings > Developer options > Wireless debugging and choose Pair new device.

  1. Take note of the Wi-Fi pairing code and IP address and Port.

  1. In Android Studio, go to Terminal and type:
adb pair <IP address>:<port> <Wi-Fi pairing code>
  1. When prompted, tap Always allow from this computer to allow debugging.

  1. After successfully pairing the watch, type:
adb connect <IP address of your watch>:<port>

Upon successful connection, you see the following message in Android Studio’s Terminal:

connected to <IP address of your watch>

The watch is now connected to the Android Studio’s debugger.