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FastMedia Wear OS Portal

Welcome to the FastMedia Wear OS Web Portal - your complete guide to the standalone media player, network resource browser, and smartwatch companion for Wear OS. FastMedia Wear pairs seamlessly with the FastMediaSorter Main Application for phones and tablets.

🌟 Capabilities Overview

FastMedia Wear turns your smartwatch into a full-featured standalone media hub and phone companion. Designed from the ground up for round and square smartwatches with Wear OS 2.0+, it offers fluid media playback, independent Wi-Fi network streaming, and phone resource integration.

🏷️ Google Play version and full version

FastMedia Wear comes in two versions, and they do not offer the same features.

Google Play version - everything on this page except the parts marked “Full version only”.
Full version - direct APK download from Downloads. It contains everything described on this page.

A part marked “Full version only” is not in the version distributed through Google Play: heart rate, blood pressure, the Motion Monitor, the Tourist Dashboard, the water flashlight, the distress signal, typing a network resource’s password on the watch, and the microphone starting on its own when the phone asks to listen.

🎵 Audio Player

Full Media Playback: Play tracks from the watch’s own storage, your paired phone and SMB, FTP or SFTP shares, plus network streams, directly from your wrist.
Rotary Bezel Volume Control: Easily adjust system media volume using the rotating watch crown or bezel with real-time visual feedback.
Album Art & Visualizer: Displays high-resolution album covers or dynamic brand wave-and-particle backgrounds when art is unavailable.
Shuffle & Auto-Advance: Continuous playback with automatic track advance and persistent shuffle modes.
Screen Off In One Tap: The black-screen button has its own row under the player controls, so blanking the screen no longer means a trip through the menu. On the smallest watch faces there is no room for the row and the command stays in the menu there. While the screen is blank a single tap only marks the spot you touched with a small white dot, so a sleeve brushing the glass no longer wakes the player; a double tap, a press and hold, or the watch’s own button brings the controls back.
Background Audio Playback: Turn on the Background playback switch to keep local audio and streams playing after you minimize the app, with controls in the media notification. When you reopen the app, the home screen carries a row naming what is playing: tap it to return to that track where it left off, or tap the stop button beside it to end playback without opening anything else. Video and slideshows still stop when the app leaves the screen.

🎥 Photo & Video Viewer

Round-Safe Video Player: Watch videos scaled for smartwatch displays with automatic advancing in slideshow mode.
One Menu in the Video Player: The command row shows the fit-or-fill button itself, so there is only one “more” button to find, and its menu is a single list - the player commands the row has no place for, followed by what you may do with the file: rename, delete, send to the phone. A tap past the buttons closes the menu, and its first entry is Back.
Photo Slideshows: Browse images and photo galleries with smooth paging and grid view options.
Network Thumbnail Previews: Rapid embedded preview thumbnail extraction for network SMB/SFTP files.
Text Documents on the Watch: Tap a text file - a note, a log, a Markdown or CSV file - and it opens on the watch instead of telling you to reach for your phone. Scroll it with your finger or the rotary bezel, pick one of three text sizes right on the reading screen, and come back later to the same place in the same file. A very large file is shown up to a safe size with a notice where it stops. PDF, EPUB and office documents still open on your phone, and the watch now names the format it cannot show.

🌐 Network Access (SMB / FTP / SFTP)

Full version only: typing a new resource’s username and password on the watch itself. Resources you add on the phone work in both versions.

Direct Wi-Fi Streaming: Connect your watch directly to home NAS, PC shared folders (SMB), and remote FTP/SFTP servers over Wi-Fi.
Host Key Pinning & Security: Enforces SFTP host key pins configured on your phone to protect credentials.
Connection Testing: In-app connection probe to test network share availability directly from the watch.
Folder Walk on a Share: Browse is offered for every network resource and opens its folders, not just the base one. Subdirectories are rows of their own, tapping one shows what is inside it, the back gesture takes you a level up and leaves the screen once you are back at the top, and tapping a file opens it in the player. SMB, FTP and SFTP all behave the same way.
Endpoint Resolution & Clear Errors: A network resource sent from your phone stays accessible when the host computer moves to another address, as the watch automatically tries all known endpoints. When a connection cannot be established, the watch states the exact cause (connection refused, timeout, invalid credentials, unknown host) instead of a generic failure.
No Cloud on the Watch: Google Drive, Dropbox and OneDrive stay on your phone - the watch has no cloud client of its own, and the phone does not pass its cloud folders on. To see a cloud file on the watch, open it on the phone and send it with “Send to..” (see Open on the Watch from the Phone below).

🔐 FileDO Encrypted Containers

Open a Container on the Wrist: Tap a FileDO .fd-sec container in the watch file list, type its password into the masked prompt, and the watch opens the photo, video, song or text it holds. Remember password saves you typing it next time. The decrypted copy stays in the app’s private storage and is deleted when you return to the list.
Encrypt and Decrypt on the Watch: Turn on FileDO encryption in the watch settings (off by default) and a single file’s menu gains Encrypt FileDO and Decrypt FileDO. Encryption asks for the password twice and leaves the original in place. It works where the watch can write the container next to the file - its own files and the Download and Documents folders.
Same Format as the Phone: A container made on the watch opens on the phone and in the FileDO desktop app, and the other way round. A wrong password, a file that was never a container and a changed container look the same to the watch, so its message names all three.

📲 Paired Phone Integration

Rows That Follow the Phone: Resources, Phone and Phone camera appear on the home screen only while a phone with FastMediaSorter is connected; a short line under the home rows says whether to connect the phone or install the app on it. Resources stays whenever a network resource is saved on the watch itself. The watch offers once to open the phone app’s store page on the phone, and the same link waits in Settings - About.
Phone Media Browsing: Recents, Videos, Audio, Images, Documents, All and Browse - the same categories, under the same names and colours, that your watch’s own storage and your network shares offer. All is a flat list of media files, newest first and without folders; Browse walks the folders of your smartphone and shows everything in them. If no resource on your phone is set up to hold a category, opening it says so instead of showing an empty list.
Selective Resource Transfer: Choose which network resources on your phone - SMB, FTP or SFTP - to make available on your watch.
Remote Log Diagnostics: Send watch diagnostic logs to the developer via the paired phone app.
Listen to the Watch from Your Phone: Ask your paired watch to turn on its microphone from the phone, and the watch opens its listening screen and starts the microphone on its own - nothing to confirm on the wrist. The phone hears what is happening nearby over the shared local Wi-Fi network while the watch keeps its microphone indicator visible for the whole session. This is how the full version works. In the Google Play version the watch shows a notification first, and the microphone starts only after you tap it and then Allow.
See Your Phone’s Camera on the Watch: Ask the paired phone to show what its camera sees, and the picture arrives on your wrist over the shared local Wi-Fi network, with sound. Every lens the phone offers is on the list, and switching between them keeps the picture going instead of starting the session over; stopping from the watch closes the camera on the phone and takes its capture indicator away. So that the phone can stay in a pocket in another room, you arm it in advance with Let my watch see my camera in the phone’s Wear OS settings - Android does not let an app open its camera while it is out of sight, so the camera starts while the app is on screen and the watch’s request then meets a picture that is already running. If nothing is armed, the watch says so and names the remedy instead of spinning.
Open on the Watch from the Phone: Pick your watch in the phone’s “Send to..” menu and the photo, GIF, video or track you have open there opens on the watch. A file kept on a network or cloud source is fetched first, with progress you can cancel. The watch app has to be open at the time - if it is closed, the phone says so instead of leaving you guessing. The phone also tells you apart the watch being unreachable, the watch staying silent, a type the watch cannot show, and a file above the 32 MB limit. Documents, text and EPUB do not offer the watch at all.
File Actions on the Watch: Long press a file to start selecting, tap other files to add them, or use Select all. The selection can then be sent to your paired phone, moved there, deleted, or renamed. Deleting and renaming also work on a photo you took on the watch or a voice note you recorded there, not only on files the app itself keeps - the watch asks the system to confirm each such change first, since those files belong to the watch’s own storage, and nothing happens if you decline. Your recorded notes also have their own entry in the local group now, and the same long press works right there in the note list - where renaming asks for no confirmation at all, the recording being the watch’s own, so you can give a note a name you will recognise instead of leaving it named after the second it was made. Anything you browse over SMB, FTP or SFTP is read-only, and the phone decides where a sent file lands. Sending a file to the phone confirms whether it landed in a local folder or was queued for remote upload, naming the destination, and if a background upload fails later, the watch receives a notification.
Copy and Move to the Watch: A photo, track or video that lives on your phone - once you have opened it and the watch holds its copy - or on an SMB, FTP or SFTP source can be kept on the watch itself. Long press the file, or open the menu in the photo, video or audio player, and pick Copy to watch or Move to watch. The copy goes into the watch’s own storage next to its other pictures, music and videos, so it shows up in the local lists afterwards and stays after the app is closed. If the name is already taken, the copy gets a new one and the watch tells you which. Copying never touches the original. A move removes the original only after the watch has checked that the copy is whole. If the original cannot be removed - the phone cannot delete it without asking you, the file on the phone is no longer the one that was copied, the network share is read-only, or the phone does not answer - the copy stays and the watch says so: “Copied to the watch - the original stayed where it was”. If there is not enough room on the watch, nothing is written and the original is left alone. Documents are not offered, because the watch’s picture, music and video lists could not show them; a watch with an older system that cannot save such a copy does not show the two entries either. A file that came from your phone no longer offers “Send to phone” and “Move to phone” - the phone has the original already - while a file the watch holds on its own keeps both.
Send to.. from the Watch: The same “Send to..” list your phone offers - email, messengers, printing, the clipboard, the system share - is now the first entry of the watch’s file menu, and it opens over the menu instead of taking you to another screen. The list is the one you already curated on the phone: a receiver you switched off there is simply not on the watch, and one you add later shows up without any second list to maintain. A receiver the watch can handle by itself works with no phone nearby. One it cannot is marked “via phone” and stays in the same place in the list even when the phone is out of reach - the watch tells you the phone is away before it starts, not after a wait. When the phone handles it, the file travels over and the phone raises a notification you tap to finish the send, and the watch says exactly that rather than pretending the message is already gone. A receiver that does not exist on your watch is not shown at all.
Clipboard on the server: Pick “Clipboard on the server” in “Send to..” and the watch sends one file or a dictaphone recording to the clipboard on every exchange server it is connected to, over its own Wi-Fi or mobile network - the phone does not need to be nearby. On the Clipboard screen, “Get the clipboard from the server” takes the latest value any of your devices put there, saves it on the watch and opens it: text, PDF, a picture or an animation, music, sound or video. Beside the action you see when the value was stored and from which device. Several files or a folder go as one archive. Keep the screen on until the transfer finishes; leaving it cancels the transfer and nothing half-done is kept.
Open in..: On the Clipboard screen, “Open in..” hands the text on the watch, or the value you just fetched from the server, to any app installed on the watch - a link to the browser, a place to maps, words to a messenger or notes, a file the watch cannot show to an app that can. The list starts with the app you used last, then the default browser and the default maps app, then the rest by name. If no app on the watch can take it, the watch says so.
Open on the Phone: A file your phone holds can be handed back to it for a proper look. Tap a file the watch cannot show - a PDF, an EPUB, an archive - or long press any file, then pick “Open on phone”: if the phone app is already on screen the file opens there at once, and if it is not, the phone raises a notification naming the file - one tap opens it. Nothing has to be copied to the watch first, so the action is there on the very first tap instead of after a wait, and a file the watch has no player for is never fetched at all. If the phone’s notifications are switched off it cannot show anything, and the watch says exactly that, so you know the fix is on the phone.
Show on TV from the Watch: What is on the watch screen can go straight to the television your phone is already casting to. Open the player menu on a stream, a photo or a video and pick “Show on TV” - the watch names the content, the phone puts it on the big screen. While a broadcast is running the same entry reads “Stop showing on TV”, so ending it takes one tap and no reaching for the phone. If no television has been chosen yet, the watch says so in plain words and the choice waits for you on the phone, where the list of televisions lives. Only things your phone can reach travel this way: streams, and pictures and videos from the network sources your phone shares with the watch. Something recorded or saved on the watch itself stays on the watch, and the watch tells you that instead of failing quietly.

🧮 Mini-Programs Suite

Full version only: the Motion Monitor and the Tourist Dashboard. Every other program below is in both versions.

Watch Calculator: Grid-based math calculator with on-screen operation history.
Watch Stopwatch: Times one, two or four things at once, each on its own part of the screen and each with its own two buttons - one starts it and then records laps, the other stops it and then clears it. A menu holds start all, stop all and reset all, the choice of how many you are timing, and the result page listing every lap with its split and its running total. The count you chose is remembered for next time. The reading stays right when the screen goes dark or you walk away to another screen and come back - nothing has to stay in front of you for the time to keep counting.
Network Monitor: Opens on a summary of the active link with your local and external address, and a button panel where every section shows a live fact. Each section is its own screen you tap into and leave with the usual edge swipe: Wi-Fi frequency, standard and a restartable signal trend; satellites by constellation with coordinates, accuracy and fix time; traffic rates with resettable counters; an on-demand reachability check. Addresses copy to the clipboard, and each section opens its own system settings screen.
Motion Monitor: Shows what the watch’s movement sensors are actually reporting, right now. The accelerometer, gyroscope and rotation vector are there on every watch that has them, with the live reading and how fast events are arriving - so a sensor that has quietly stopped answering is visible rather than guessed at. Step counter and step detector sit in their own group and ask for activity access the moment you open it. Where a sensor is missing, access was declined, or the build simply does not carry step reading, the row says which of the three it is instead of showing a zero. Everything stops the moment you leave the screen.
Mini-Game: On-watch entertainment usable completely offline without a phone connection. Every board is drawn at random, so two games in a row never repeat and restarting a level gives you a fresh one; leaving the game and coming back returns the board and the position you left. Each new board opens with a short arrow pointing from you to the nearest exit, then fades on its own. A back arrow at the left middle of the screen leaves the game and a small skip-turn button opposite it lets the shadows move while you stay put; both are also in the menu a long press opens.
Tourist Dashboard: Real-time outdoor navigation and telemetry hub. Displays high-contrast metrics including speed, altitude, magnetic compass heading, GPS coordinates, visible GNSS satellites, step counts, accumulated trip distance, and solar sunrise/sunset times. Tapping any secondary telemetry card promotes it to the primary interactive Hero display, and quick action chips provide instant reset controls for trip distance and session steps.
Broadcast: Turns the watch into the source instead of the listener. Start it from the Programs grid, or from the home-screen row under Programs whenever the broadcast is the last program you opened, and the watch opens its microphone and serves the sound over Wi-Fi to anyone you share the address with - several listeners at once. Tap Show QR code and the address appears as a code the other device scans; the listener adds it exactly as they would a broadcast from a phone. The listener has to be on the same Wi-Fi as the watch, and if the watch has no Wi-Fi up it says so instead of starting a broadcast nobody could reach. It keeps running with the screen off and after you go back to the home screen, and it is always visible while it does: the screen shows it is on air and the ongoing notification carries a Stop broadcast button. One tap ends it and gives the microphone and the network back. A second button, the black screen, blanks the watch screen while the broadcast keeps running - a double tap, a press and hold, or the watch button brings the controls back - and the QR code sizes itself to the dial, so it always fits the round display whole. On a Windows PC the broadcast plays in StreamsPlayer: open the watch’s address, or paste the text of its QR code. The same route turns the watch into a microphone for any Windows program - install the free VB-CABLE virtual audio cable, give StreamsPlayer the CABLE Input device in the Windows volume mixer, and choose CABLE Output as the microphone in the program. While it serves sound the watch is kept from dozing off on it, so a wrist that dropped or a watch left on the charger no longer cuts the listeners off mid-sentence. There is nothing to allow for background work: Wear OS has no per-app battery setting of that kind, so the watch keeps its processor awake for the length of the broadcast and runs it as a foreground service instead. A very long, completely undisturbed sleep may still end a broadcast, and you start it again from the watch. A broadcast is hungry: with the screen on it uses about a third of the watch’s battery an hour, so keep the watch on its charger for a long call.

🧩 Wear OS Tiles

Five Dedicated Tiles: Add Network Resource, Stream, Favorites, Programs, and Sections tiles to your Wear OS tile carousel.
Shortcut Grids: The Programs tile opens the mini-programs of the Apps section in one tap; the Sections tile does the same for the app’s own sections. Neither needs assigning - adding it to the carousel is all there is to it. A grid holds seven cells: when there is more to show than that, the last cell opens the app itself, where the rest are listed.
Quick Assignment: Point an unassigned Resource or Stream tile to your target directly from the watch.
Standalone & Offline: Launch assigned network shares, streams, or favourites list instantly from your watch face, completely independent of the phone or network state.

⌚ Watch Face

FastMediaSorter Watch Face is a separate, free watch face for Wear OS 6 and newer. It is not part of the watch app: you install it on its own from Google Play, on the watch.

What it shows: a large time, the date, waves and drifting particles, and battery bars.
Battery bars: the thin top bar is the watch’s charge and the bottom bar is the paired phone’s. A bar is white above 25%, amber from 11% to 25% and red at 10% and below. While that device charges - even at 100% - its bar turns green and gets a white outline, so the state reads without relying on color. A bar that has no fresh phone report shows only its empty track. Both bars hide in the always-on screen. Update the watch app and the face together: an older face does not show the phone’s charging state.
Up to eight round buttons: shortcuts to FastMediaSorter or other watch data. The buttons appear together with the FastMediaSorter watch app.
How to get it: search for FastMediaSorter in Google Play on the watch, or open the Wear settings of the phone app, which offers to open the page on the watch. Then pick the face in the watch’s face picker.

📸 Interface & Layout Showcase

Color schemes: The watch interface is drawn in one of eight schemes - a plain dark or light one, or a green, blue or red accent family in either. The set is the phone’s, so a pair can be set the same way and a family reads as the same family on both devices. Dark is the default and reproduces the look the watch had before, so nothing changes until you choose. Pick a scheme on the watch or in the phone companion window - a change on either side reaches the other.
Wallpaper choices: Navigation screens can use the branded animation, a stationary branded frame, or a photo already sent from the phone. Settings screens stay free of wallpaper. A light color scheme lightens this layer and the veil over a delivered photo too, so dark content stays readable over any of them.

FastMedia Wear adapts dynamically to every smartwatch screen shape and density.

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Round-Safe Screen Margin: All UI components, buttons, and scrolling indicators sit strictly inside the round screen glass.
Grid & List View Modes: Switch between single-column lists and 2-column or 3-column rectangular thumbnail grids.
D-Pad & Touch Support: Optimized touch targets (minimum 48 dp) and hardware rotary crown support.
The Home Row That Follows You: The row under Programs on the home screen carries whichever mini-program you opened last, under its own name and its own icon - the game, the water flashlight, the stopwatch, whatever it was - and one tap opens it again. Until you have opened anything, and again whenever the broadcast was the last thing you opened, the row is the Broadcast entrance it has always been. Every other program stays one tap further away, in Programs.
Universal Back Affordance & Navigation: Every Wear OS screen provides a visible universal back affordance button positioned at the middle of the left edge, alongside standard edge-swipe gestures and physical hardware back buttons. On navigation screens and players, tapping the back affordance steps back to the previous screen. On the main home screen, the affordance dynamically adapts to playback state: showing an exit icon (an arrow leaving a box) to leave the app when idle, or a minimize double-chevron («) when background audio is actively playing.
Screen Off From Any Screen: Opposite the back arrow, at the middle of the right edge, every screen that carries the arrow also carries a black-screen button (a phone with a dark screen) that blanks the watch screen where you stand - no trip into a player first. A double tap, a press and hold, or the watch’s own button brings the screen back, and a single tap while it is blank only marks the spot you touched. The button steps just inside the rim so it never sits on the volume bar or the scroll indicator that live there.

🔗 Phone & Watch Integration

FastMedia Wear operates both as an independent standalone smartwatch app and as a companion to the FastMediaSorter Main Phone App.

Feature	Standalone Watch App	Paired with Phone App
Direct Wi-Fi SMB/FTP/SFTP Playback	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Local Watch Audio & Media	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Mini-Programs (Calculator, Stopwatch, Game)	✅ Yes	✅ Yes
Phone Storage Access	-	✅ Yes (Read-only via Wi-Fi/BT)
Resource Preset Sync	-	✅ Yes (One-tap Transfer)
Log Diagnostics	-	✅ Yes (Relayed via Phone)

The table describes the full version. The Google Play version leaves out the health programs, the water flashlight and the distress signal.

Learn More About the Phone & Tablet App

Main Application Documentation - Complete overview of FastMediaSorter for Android phones, tablets, and TV.
First Launch & Device Profiles - Pre-configure your phone for Photo Frame, In-Car Music, or Home Cinema.
All Step-by-Step Scenario Guides - 15+ guides for network shares, camera backups, and media organization.

📥 Downloads & App Stores

FastMedia Wear and FastMedia Mobile App are available across major app stores and direct download channels:

Smartwatch & Mobile App Packages

Google Play Store - Download phone and Wear OS companion apps directly to your devices.
FastMediaSorter Watch Face - A separate, free watch face for Wear OS 6 and newer; install it on the watch from Google Play beside the watch app.
F-Droid Open Source - Open-source builds for Android devices and Wear OS watches.
Direct APK Release - Direct APK downloads for phone and smartwatch sideloading.

📚 Step-by-Step Guides

Put FastMedia on Your Smartwatch - Step-by-step installation and pairing guide.
Listen to Music on Smartwatch - How to play tracks, manage volume, and keep audio going in the background or with the screen dark.
Connect Watch to Network Shares - Connect your watch directly to PC and NAS SMB/SFTP shares.
TV on Your Smartwatch - Fill the channel list, search and filter it, pin what you watch and reach it from a tile.
Watch icon legend - Every icon on the watch beside the one name it carries in every FastMedia surface.