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[Request] Graphical Elevation from a Activity

markusburkhardt
I want to have a graphical elevation from beginning of a Activity till the end. It should be start, when the Activity starts.

The Elevation Widget is no option, because the shows the latest 4 hours and the Graphical Elevation Datafield shows only a graph when is visible. By the way the graph ist ugly like a computer from the 80ies :rolleyes:
  • It seems that this could be done from within a data field.

    I'm not sure if you can access the widget list from within an activity or not; I'm not sure that users can access the widgets while a recording is active or not. Even if the user has access to the widget pages while recording an activity, for this to work that widget would need to be active to be able to sample the elevation data.

    As for your comment about graphs looking like ugly computers from the 80's, consider that the graph is limited to 16 colors (on some devices), and 218x218 for a round face (37325 pixels) or 205x148 pixels for a square face (30340 pixels). For comparison, Atari 2600, which was introduced in 1982, had 128 colors and a maximum resolution of 160x192 pixels (30720 pixels). In other words, the Atari had better hardware. Drawing graphs that look as nice as something you'd see on an iPhone is not easy given the limitations.
  • It seems that this could be done from within a data field.


    Do you mean that this is possible as a Datafield?

    I'm not sure if you can access the widget list from within an activity or not; I'm not sure that users can access the widgets while a recording is active or not. Even if the user has access to the widget pages while recording an activity, for this to work that widget would need to be active to be able to sample the elevation data.


    You can access Widgets while you use a activity, e.g. the Elevation Widget. But some Widgets want to pause the Acidity to show Datas.

    As for your comment about graphs looking like ugly computers from the 80's, consider that the graph is limited to 16 colors (on some devices), and 218x218 for a round face (37325 pixels) or 205x148 pixels for a square face (30340 pixels). For comparison, Atari 2600, which was introduced in 1982, had 128 colors and a maximum resolution of 160x192 pixels (30720 pixels). In other words, the Atari had better hardware. Drawing graphs that look as nice as something you'd see on an iPhone is not easy given the limitations.


    I mean that the Graph is not a curve but its like stairs :-)
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    I mean that the Graph is not a curve but its like stairs :-)


    Is this better? :-) https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/0bbabaa9-aedf-44e8-913b-60e4198be083
  • Is this better? :-) https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/0bbabaa9-aedf-44e8-913b-60e4198be083


    That looks cool, but why do you display only the last 10 min? Is it possible to show more, like the last 1 or 2 hours?

    Can you show the elevation since the start of a Activity or can this not be done with the SDK?
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