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1. #GARMIN WATCH FACES ACTIFACE FOR FREE#
2. #GARMIN WATCH FACES ACTIFACE SIMULATOR#

I'd say it took me about 2.5 hours to get to the simplest digital watch face (with built-in font) going on my actual device. (I used the eclipse plugin route, probably the way to go). I used the ConnectIQ SDK, I guess it was slightly better then I expected. I'm also interested in ways i can improve it aesthetically, or other ideas for data fields. (and in the watch's FIT directories they're there. My watch is missing some of my recent activities (hence the 6 day span of emptiness under ACTIVE, however my connect app on my phone shows them.

#GARMIN WATCH FACES ACTIFACE SIMULATOR#

i waste a lot of time because of this.Īllow the simulator to save mocked activity information. Hitting run(Simulator) doesnt save/build in eclipse. and it's really just dealing with my own desires, who else would want this face? and for 2: I didn't write this to work with every product in their line. so I don't want to submit it for use by others. This may be reasonable for lots of technical reasons on Garmin's part, but for people just starting, this is hard, for 1: I don't own the rights to the font i've been monkeying with. but the on-phone-settings requires going through the store. Garmin makes it easy to side-load a watchface, without submitting it to Garmin. I wanted to put next sunrise/sunset in the alarm spot, but it's hard for numerous reasons, Garmin should supply this.I've considered writing a background process but not sure that would help?

If anyone with experience out there can help me:Ĭalling Activity.getActivityInfo().currentHeartRate completely destabilizes the watch, so i'm left to dig through history.

So here is a face that meets my needs, and is built towards minimal battery use.

#GARMIN WATCH FACES ACTIFACE FOR FREE#

The faces provided by Garmin are so ugly/unfunctional, but there are some amazing 3rd party faces for free out there, it got me inspired. it's what you'd expect from a hardware company trying to open up. This is my first crack at writing a face, but it was pretty neat. They should really let you post text/image at the same time.