Rookie dev here. After creating a watch face for personal use on my Vivoactive 3, I was asked to make it available for others. I started with just the round-240x240, round-218x218 and semiround-215x180 watches which seemingly covers 85% of all hardware. But it seems the men can't settle on 1-2 devices, and the 15% started coming out of the woodwork requesting a face for their device as well.
Yesterday I took a stab at the Forerunner 45. I tried creating a resource directory for round-208x208 but the simulator did not appear to be using the custom resources. I had better luck with resources-fr45 although the simulator still did not recognize the custom settings folder (limited color choices).
When viewing the FR45 in the simulator, I was seeing this:
When my user downloads the app from the CIQ store, he is seeing this:
Note the difference in font for TIME between simulator and real world -- I used a custom bitmap font (Roboto Black/Medium) for the other devices, but purposely used FONT_NUMBER_MILD in the resources-fr45 layout. It appears like the FR45 is using the default resources folder (240x240) which uses the custom bitmap font. Although you would think that using a layout for a 240x240 device would spread the elements apart rather than cause them to scrunch together on a smaller screen.
I confirmed with my user that several custom faces have the scrunched look. He also stated that he received an error when attempting to go into the settings:
Interestingly enough any custom watch face is doing this scrunch thing. When I try to load settings it says there was a problem communicating with your Garmin device.
Is anyone having any luck with the FR45? Is there a trick I am not finding in documentation/forums that would allow the FR45 to correctly use my watch face? FWIW, I am using SDK 3.0.12 in the Eclipse IDE.
