Read/Write text file

Former Member over 9 years ago

Hello, is there any way to read/write a text file? For example, to store data that otherwise would go hardcoded in the program (thus making it bigger)

I haven't found any info about this subject.

Is there any other Connect IQ resources other than the Programming manual and this forum.

I think I am going to give up programming in this platform, enjoy the Fenix3 as is, and wait to the first wearable sports smartwatch Android compatible...

jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

There's no way to read/write a text file on the watch (other that writing to the <myapp>.txt log file). Would the Object Store work for what you have in mind?

Former Member over 9 years ago

There's no way to read/write a text file on the watch (other that writing to the <myapp>.txt log file). Would the Object Store work for what you have in mind?

No, Object Store is intended to be used with key/value pairs (could be useful to store some settings for example).

Imagine I want to allow a user to choose a city to load some values. I have information of 20.000 cities of the world.

Obviously I don't want to hardcode that information in the app, so I would like to have it outside and load it when necessary.

It's just an example on why would I need read/write access to a file...

jim_m_58 over 9 years ago

What about getting the info off a web server with makeJsonRequest()? You couldn't get 20k items in a single response (the limit is something like 8k of data in a response, and you also have a limit as far as the number of objects)