MeteorJS On Watch OS

Question

Is it possible to get a MeteorJS app onto a watch OS?

I'm asking related to either Apples or the Android version. After googling around, I think the android version can support a browser, but the apple watch doesn't (at least not if you don't jailbreak it).

It seems meteor works with browser functionality inside a native app wrapper. Is such a thing available for these watch OS's?

Answer 1

There are some efforts to enable iOS/OSX applications to easily connect to and communicate with Meteor servers. WatchOS runs an environment that is relatively similar to iOS and so I expect that some if not all of the libraries/extensions will work in WatchOS projects. The most popular effort that I've seen is called ObjectiveDDP: https://github.com/boundsj/ObjectiveDDP

ObjectiveDDP allows you to do the following:

• Connect to and authenticate with a Meteor server.
• Listen for update events on collections.
• Call Meteor Methods.
• Send CRUD commands to Meteor for a collection/document.

Answer 2

As for android, the answer is no right now (https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/apps/index.html):

Wearable apps can access much of the standard Android APIs, but don't support the following APIs:

• android.webkit
• ...

Hence, you cannot have a webview on an adroid-wear watch, which is what phonegap/cordova use to run meteor apps on android. Until that changes, I don't think it will be possible to "just run" meteor apps on an android-wear watch without writing your own native android app. As Patrick said, such a native app could still communicate with the meteor server using DDP, but it's not as straightforward as writing a meteor app that runs on regular android.