Component used:

androidx.wear:wear:1.2.0

com.google.android.support:wearable:2.9.0

com.google.android.gms:play-services-wearable:18.0.0

minSdkVersion 25

targetSdkVersion 33

My wear app uses a single androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity together with androidx.wear.ambient.AmbientModeSupport

Devices/Android versions reproduced on:

OnPlus8Pro Android 11

"Mainline" Android 10

Huawei Enjoy 9s Android 8.1.0

I've been getting these crashes for a awhile now:

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Could not find wearable shared library classes. Please add <uses-library android:name="com.google.android.wearable" android:required="false" /> to the application manifest
    androidx.wear.ambient.SharedLibraryVersion.verifySharedLibraryPresent(SharedLibraryVersion.java:109)
    androidx.wear.ambient.WearableControllerProvider.getWearableController(WearableControllerProvider.java:109)
    androidx.wear.ambient.AmbientDelegate.onCreate(AmbientDelegate.java:109)
    androidx.wear.ambient.AmbientModeSupport.onCreate(AmbientModeSupport.java:109)
    androidx.fragment.app.Fragment.performCreate(Fragment.java:66)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentStateManager.create(FragmentStateManager.java:66)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentStateManager.moveToExpectedState(FragmentStateManager.java:151)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.executeOpsTogether(FragmentManager.java:1038)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.removeRedundantOperationsAndExecute(FragmentManager.java:81)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.execPendingActions(FragmentManager.java:74)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.dispatchStateChange(FragmentManager.java:63)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentManager.dispatchActivityCreated(FragmentManager.java:32)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentController.dispatchActivityCreated(FragmentController.java:32)
    androidx.fragment.app.FragmentActivity.onStart(FragmentActivity.java:32)
    androidx.appcompat.app.AppCompatActivity.onStart(AppCompatActivity.java:0)
    android.app.Instrumentation.callActivityOnStart(Instrumentation.java:1674)
    android.app.Activity.performStart(Activity.java:8018)
    android.app.ActivityThread.handleStartActivity(ActivityThread.java:3469)
    android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.performLifecycleSequence(TransactionExecutor.java:221)
    android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.cycleToPath(TransactionExecutor.java:201)
    android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.executeLifecycleState(TransactionExecutor.java:173)
    android.app.servertransaction.TransactionExecutor.execute(TransactionExecutor.java:97)
    android.app.ActivityThread$H.handleMessage(ActivityThread.java:2068)
    android.os.Handler.dispatchMessage(Handler.java:106)
    android.os.Looper.loop(Looper.java:223)
    android.app.ActivityThread.main(ActivityThread.java:7680)
    java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:0)
    com.android.internal.os.RuntimeInit$MethodAndArgsCaller.run(RuntimeInit.java:592)
    com.android.internal.os.ZygoteInit.main(ZygoteInit.java:947)

and while the solution seems clear, I'm still seeing crashes after adding

<uses-library
            android:name="com.google.android.wearable"
            android:required="false" />

In both my wear and main app manifest in the application tag.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong at this point, so I think that the implementation in androidx.wear.ambient.SharedLibraryVersion.verifySharedLibraryPresent or where it's called from should be changed so we can at least catch this exception on the problematic devices, because as it is there is a crash which we can't fix in any way (it seems)?