Where to download garmin watch faces for free#
Where to download garmin watch faces software#

Where to download garmin watch faces software#

The documentation is OK-ish, and while you get some errors at compile time, you get most after trying to run it on the simulator, so it's somewhat tedious (in comparison to a more polished language, software only project). They use some custom weird interpreted java-variant, called cutely Monkey C (Despite being nothing like C). If you've never programmed before it's doable, but going to be a steeper learning curve. My background is lots of varied computer programming (with lots of graphics), so this is kind of in my wheel house. Projects like this (mixing design/art and engineering) can take up as much time as you let them, i'm probably currently into it for roughly 16 hours at this point. 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. 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.

Where to download garmin watch faces 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.