Can someone explain how to write/deploy sports mode apps?

[pablo11]

@billsaun I am really surprised that you haven’t noticed that so called “sports mode” on these watches is fake? (since the Optimus 2)
It is nothing but the same as the usual mode, apart from the launcher.
The launcher just hides most apps from the user when you switch modes.

The pixart BT chip prevents the old “dual system mode” that was used on the Optimus Pro with the amoled screen.
And the Lemfo LEM 9, Thor 5 and Optimus Lite.

These old models used to have a real dual operation mode which switches you to the BT chip after a full reboot and hence no calls were possible and operation was indeed very restricted.

So, when you switch to this more modern “sports mode” the apps are exactly the same as any other apps that you can install.
The only thing is that the “lite” launcher will hide them.
This cannot be changed.
However, given that there is no other difference between the two modes apart from the launcher - it’s not a problem.
Just don’t use the restricted “sports mode” launcher.
It’s a placebo… (if you don’t see those apps it must be saving power, right?)
It makes no difference at all apart from stopping you accessing apps that might use power, if you launched them.
All the same background tasks run in both modes

If you check out the Prime S and the LEM P threads, I explained it there as well.

@pablo11

Update:

Again, just so everyone knows…
The LEM P, Prime S, Optimus 2 and any of the other supposedly “Dual Mode” watches are not Dual Mode in reality.

Unlike the original Optimus watches that did have “dual operating mode” and the watch would boot into the BT environment.

This is because the Dual System mode is actually just a cut down version of the launcher that prevents the user from using the majority of Android apps and some services. So booting into the BT system is not required and does not happen. The BT system chip in this case is used to handle the sensor information and it does a good job of this.

On these devices, when you use the “other” operating mode you are effectively invoking a strict power saving mode - but only because the launcher changes and prevents you from accessing the regular apps.
Hence if you can get around the restricted launcher - phone calls and everything else still works as normal. You can easily verify this by installing a third party launcher.