Because the Vivoactive's face is fairly dim in ambient lighting, it appears much more readable when the watch face has a positive display (black letters on light background). Unfortunately, it appears that almost all of the displays in Connect IQ have negative displays. Is anyone willing to create more of the positive displays? Can any developers modify their existing watch faces to create a 'light' version? Thanks!
I'm in! But anything I create won't hit the appstore till Monday or Tuesday at the earliest because no one is there to approve the submissions over the weekend. Will try to post link once they're up.
I dream of the day that people will stop submitting several versions of an app/widget/watchface that are simply just different colors. Unfortunately, this is the world we live in until the ability to modify application properties outside of the device is possible...
Travis. I hope it won't be long before Garmin allows for an easy config of stuff, like "white or black background"! I hope that it will coming soon from the CIQ VM folks at Garmin!
Yeah. It is pretty trivial to add support for color schemes, but without some mechanism to select the scheme... I suppose Garmin could implement something in the VM that says to invert colors (or just some subset of the colors), but that is likely to result in some awful looking apps.
Sorry... I'm not suggesting that you shouldn't upload them to the store.
I'm just venting that there is no reasonable way to allow users to configure watch faces and data fields on the device yet. The only known workarounds are to upload multiple versions of the same app or to write a parser/writer for the data file format to provide to users (which has apparently been done).
That said, I hope that when you did create the above apps, you made all of the necessary changes to support color schemes being read from the object store and then just changed the default value(s) and UUID for each different watch face. That would mean just a few to flip between colors, and then (ideally) you wouldn't need to make a bunch of changes later to support color scheme selection via the object store.
I changed the UUID, but did not set up anything reading from object store yet... I literally just flipped COLOR_BLACK to COLOR_WHITE and vice versa, which took all of about 10 minutes for the 4 watch faces.
Also revealed a bug in the app exporter from eclipse... it only uses the first 8 char of your app project name (not even the actual app name, but the project name!) to create the file, so if you use 8 chars and then a number for versioning, it will just overwrite the same file over and over!
