Image is blurry on lower resolutions

Former Member over 5 years ago

Hello guys, I'm newbie into Garmin Watchface development and I have an issue. When I set the background image to a 390x390 px resolution watch, like Garmin Venu, it's quite clear, but when I try to set an background image of 260x260px size to an Garmin watch with 260x260x resolution, it's blurry. I can't handle it, can you help me? I'll put below some screenshot's for a better understood.

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jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

One other thing - the sim might not really show what it looks like on a real device, as the pixels are bigger in the sim.Which device do you actually have? Maybe find someone with the other and have them…

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jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

It's the color depth. The Venu (AMOLED) is something like 64k colors, while the f6 (MIP), 64 colors

See this for the # of colors on devices:

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/compatible-devices/

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

One other thing - the sim might not really show what it looks like on a real device, as the pixels are bigger in the sim.Which device do you actually have? Maybe find someone with the other and have them take a picture on the actual device.

The colors don't show the same in the sim as on devices (MIP). For example, red text on a black background in the sim may look fine, but on a device, not as readable.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

If you don't have a venu, you may want to note it's different in other ways too. In high power mode, things display as you'd expect, but when you switch to low power, there are a number of restrictions. See:

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/b/news-announcements/posts/connect-iq-3-1-now-available

No more than 10% screen pixels can be on
No pixel can be on longer than 3 mins