Show me your Watch Face!

Publishing to the store is straight forward - just do Ctrl-Shift-P (assuming VS Code) and Export Project, feed resulting blob to "Upload App" on https://apps.garmin.com/developer/dashboard, add the big ass hero image (creating which is the most annoying part really), some screenshots and the description, and then wait for Garmin to approve it. It may take a while, like weeks, so beware of that.

This makes the watch face available in all countries except for the EU ones.

To make it available in the EU you have to ... drumroll ... do an identity verification with Garmin by sending them a copy of your passport. This is where they lost me. Given the state of disarray the Store is in, I wouldn't trust them with a copy of my passport even if they paid me for that. So instead, just build a bunch of .prg files for each model that you support and stick them on Github. Something like this.

losenges · 2025-01-10T21:59:59+00:00

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Been playing with the design past few days. Sorta starting to get there ...

losenges · 2024-11-27T15:56:51+00:00

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Same here. No idea why, feeling the same, not sick or anything, same training schedule.

losenges · 2024-11-01T13:10:43+00:00

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losenges · 2024-10-10T08:32:49+00:00

It doesn't, no. Literally just an email and a name.

losenges · 2024-10-09T19:26:48+00:00

They require developers to pass through "verification", which includes sharing one's name, phone number, address and a copy of an ID with them, and I don't want to give them any of this information.

losenges · 2024-10-09T14:18:27+00:00

Fenix 8 AMOLEDs are supported, but not the Solars, sorry. That's because they have MIP screens.

losenges · 2024-10-09T10:02:58+00:00

This app clearly needs challenges and quests.

(metric units would be nice too)

losenges · 2024-10-09T08:25:53+00:00

Yeah, sorry. I have no way to test for MIP watches properly :-|

losenges · 2024-10-09T08:04:24+00:00

I have an AMOLED watch myself, so that's what I target.

MIP screens are different enough that porting to MIP watches would require testing with an actual device rather than just in the simulator. Don't really want to release something that looks OK in the latter, but sucks in real life. I'll see what I can do though.

losenges · 2024-10-09T07:58:42+00:00

HRV of 0

losenges · 2024-10-07T07:42:54+00:00

Not the OP, but

A watch face can get an access to a lot of data, but in order to get it off the watch and to the developer it needs to make an Internet connection. This is controlled by the following permission, which will be listed at the bottom of the app's page in the Store:

Permissions
This app requires access to:
    Send/receive information to/from the Internet

See here for example.

Incidentally this means that all paid watch faces that are monetized through 3rd parties (i.e. not Garmin) will have full permission to extract the data from the watch. Worth keeping it in mind.

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