Using Widget during Activity

I'm confused as to whether or not widgets can be accessed during an activity. The Programmer's Guide states the following:

Widgets are full screen pages that can be embedded into the main page loop or the page loop of an activity.

I might be reading this wrong, but this sounds like it should be possible to access the widget during an activity. I made a quick test widget that referenced the Activity object, and was able to display times, distances etc on the simulator. However, when I deployed it to my 920XT, the widget only appeared under the main page loop, with 0.000000 elapsed time and null distance, and was not available during an activity.

Am I misinterpreting the documentation, or is it somehow possible to add widgets to the activity page loop?

Nikeow over 9 years ago

I can only say this
1) when a native garmin App is running (say the run app)
2) long press the u key (or down key. Forgot)
3) u go into widget mode.

I've not tried to look at other widgets beside the native ones - but it works.

jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

I've not tried to look at other widgets beside the native ones - but it works.

Only native ones work while in an activity, and at least on a va, you only get the default watchface and not a CIQ one while in an activity.

It's a memory limitation, as activities use a bunch of memory, and there's not enough to run CIQ widgets and watchfaces at that time.