"Install the Android Wear companion app" should state how

[hakanai]

On this page, Step 1. "Install the Android Wear companion app on your handheld device."

I'm using the emulator and for some stupid reason the store app is inexplicably missing from the emulator, so I can't just search for the app and download it.

As my first attempted workaround for this, I search for it using the Browser app and try to install from there. This gives me an error saying that I have no devices. Since I'm using the browser from "a device", it seems that this error message could do with some work too.

As a second attempted workaround, I hunted down a site where people put .apk files up for download. On attempting to download any files, however, the browser crashed.

So I think the guide should probably give some definitive word on how we're supposed to download this app, because the platform is doing its absolute best to prevent me doing that.

Perhaps the dev kit should just install necessary related stuff as part of the virtual device, rather than expecting us to try for hours to unsuccessfully install something which should probably have been there in the first place. Something I might file as an issue against the SDK later, if I have time.

I didn't even want to set up an emulated phone in the first place, though. I wanted it to talk to my iOS device, but the wearable emulator crashes every time you try to do some action which might use the Bluetooth network. Even if it didn't support Bluetooth, it would have been nice if it at least emulated the ability to fetch data, so that I could get some fucking work done instead of wasting time for hours trying to figure out which pieces fit together, and spoiler warning for anyone who hasn't tried yet, none of them do. Nothing works, just give up before you waste any more of your time.