A Picture on a watchface. Done!

Back when I just started with CIQ I asked a question about having a picture on a watchface (vivoactive) and got good info, but it took me time to digest the info and learn about CIQ in general. I finally took the plunge and developed one for a friend of mine. The image is hard coded, but it works! This is a capture from the simulator, and looks better on a real va. With the 64 colors on a va, this is possible. The 16 colors on a f3 or 920, I kind of doubt it....

teadriven over 10 years ago

I work on Linux, so of course GIMP is the only sensible choice for handling images. I also use Inkscape for any vector graphics (used it for the logo here). For work, I needed to produce a calibration template that was accurate to fractions of a millimetre and Inkscape did the job perfectly!

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

@jim_m_58 Sorry if it sounded like I thought your image looked bad--that wasn't my intent. :) I was just using what you'd posted as an example, but maybe I should have used my own image.

Before I joined the Connect IQ team, I was playing around with the SDK to try to do some basic things and better understand how it works. I ran into this indexing problem right away:

You can see that the dithering is pretty bad in that image. This wasn't even my first attempt. I had initially allowed the resource compiler to handle indexing, and it looked horrible because the black jacket was full of red dots. Later, I took the time to index these images myself, which produced some better results:

64 Colors:

16 Colors:

I could probably do some more hand-tweaking (for example, remove the red dots from the background of the 16 color version), but you can see it's already much less messy than the original attempts.