Drawables on layout.xml

It might help if you posted your code so we could try it ourselves and point out the errors.

You should be able to generate a sample watch-app from the project templates, and it demonstrates how to place a bitmap in a layout:

<layout id="MainLayout">
    <label x="center" y="5" text="@Strings.prompt" color="Graphics.COLOR_WHITE" justification="Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER" />
    <bitmap id="id_monkey" x="center" y="30" filename="../drawables/monkey.png" />
</layout>

I haven't tried to do this in a while, but you should be able to use a custom drawable for this as well. Something like:

<layout id="MainLayout">
    <label x="center" y="5" text="@Strings.prompt" color="Graphics.COLOR_WHITE" justification="Graphics.TEXT_JUSTIFY_CENTER" />
    <drawable id="id_monkey" class="WatchUi.Bitmap">
        <param name="locX">center</param>
        <param name="locY">30</param>
        <param name="rezId">@Drawables.myBitmap</param>
    </drawable>
</layout>

Hello Travis.ConnectIQ,

Thanks for your response.

Your first snippet is what I ended doing. However, by reading the documentation I came to the conclusion that the following was possible:

In resources/drawables.xml:

<drawables>
    <bitmap id="LauncherIcon" filename="launcher_icon.png" />
    <bitmap id="batteryMask" filename="battery_mask.png"/>
</drawables>

Then just reference the bitmap on the layout like this:

<layout>
   <drawable id="batteryMask" x="5" y="70"/>
</layout>

However that does not work at all. I came to this conclusion by reading the following on developer docs:

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/programmers-guide/user-interface#drawables

Drawables (both bitmaps and drawable XML resources) can also be included in a layout using the drawable tag. The following attributes are supported by the drawable tag:

Regards

However that does not work at all. I came to this conclusion by reading the following on developer doc

Ugh. Looks like a docs bug. I'm pretty sure you need to create a drawable-list with positioning information, and then reference that drawable list in the layout.

Yes, it definetively looks like a documentation bug. Is there anyone we can warn about it? 

I'll file a bug report.

@Travis.ConnectIQ This is *still* a bug in the docs.