Can an IQ developer decide what to display in the activity statistics?

A developer of Connect IQ apps can only add additional CIQ data fields to the FIT file, and can decide whether the data will be displayed on a graph. If so, then he can choose the color of that graph, but that's all. CIQ API currently does not offer any control over the color of the activity panel in GC, apart from modifying the activity type to one of pre-defined options. The panel color for each activity type is then hardcoded into GC. 

Then I really think Garmin should implement a change of shown data if an activity is used without GPS as an indoor activity.

There is a lot of people intentionally turning off GPS for (some) outdoor activities. Either to save battery, or because they do not need the track. They might disagree.

What data for example?

I use both WALK INDOOR for when I'm at an indoor track, and WALK (with GPS) outside. I can't complain about either. But about 75% of the time I walk outside WITHOUT GPS, I don't really need to see that for every walk or hike.

If I use "other" without GPS it want's to show me my distance in the preview, but without GPS there isn't a recorded distance.

In the activity it wants to show me average speed, there isn't any.

On the second datapage it tells me I had no pace, because there isn't any, also the 3 speed fields are empty.

Movement time is 0 (because it did not register movement), but it could just display the active time separated from paused time, as it does on the third lap page.

Makes no sense to display so much GPS based data if I deactivate GPS for this profile.

No the activity type is correct as "other" since it's not listed and I don't want to use something else for it, which it isn't.

And as the topic of this thread answered, an IQ app can't change how the activity is displayed when recording to the same type/profile.

Fenix 7

KrapfenKringel said:

an IQ app can't change how the activity is displayed

I forgot to mention, that the activity behavior is to certain extent encoded into the sport definition FIT file in the folder //GARMIN/Sports. However, although the used FIT format is well documented, the meaning of most of the fields within the sport definition file is not. At least not to my knowledge. A skilled coder would be able to hack an existing fitting activity definition so that it saves under the desired activity type. So for example if you want your activity to be logged as "Other" and saving the distance, it might be possible, by hacking a suitable sports file, just modifying the bytes with the activity type ID. Garmin Connect may override some of the options and features in the sports definition, but in many cases it does not. You will not know for sure without testing it.

Fenix 7 has Hiking. Why not use a CIQ data field called StepstoFit so it's visible on watch during activity AND will be in the FIT file.

Rename it to walk after you save activity, or not....I would not expect Other to do anything worthwhile in this case.

I use it because Garmin thinks having steps in the FIT activity is not worth bothering about.

I'm not walking, I'm doing something other.