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Where can I go to learn how to code for the Garmin Watch?

Former Member
Former Member over 4 years ago

I am about to retire and I would like to be able to code apps for the Garmin watches.  Specifically a dive computer app.  Where can I go to learn the code Garmin is using?  I learned some programming in college but I doubt Garmin is using Fortran.

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    0 Former Member over 4 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

    OK JAVA installer sucks.  I uninstalled and then did the offline installation.  Now Eclipsis installing

  • 0 over 4 years ago in reply to Former Member

    I learned by using the examples in the Samples section and then hacking them to do various other things I wanted to do instead.  After you play around with the code a bit you get an idea for what the various methods and classes are capable of.  If you're used to programming, you should be able to pick it up reasonably quickly.

    I'd have to say the online documentation could be a little more informative, but I'm used to lousy documentation for every language I've learned in the past, so why should I expect anything different this time around.  If you go to the API documentation and look for a particular method, you'll often get this:

    (sometimes the link will provide more meaningful information, sometimes not, its a crapshoot)

    getActivityInfo ⇒ Toybox::Activity::Info

    Get the current Activity Info.

    Returns:

    • (Toybox::Activity::Info) —

      The current Activity Info or null if there is no current activity.