"Build Targets" in manifest.xml does not present Approach S62.

It presents the Approach S60.

Since the approach S62 is rather new and my SDK installation is more than 1 years old, I guess I have to upgrade.

I have a mac and if I look in the menu eclipse -> about eclipse -> installation details -> plug-ins I find:

- connect iq 3.2.5

- connect iq SDK manager 3.2.5.

If I look in the menu Connect IQ -> Open SDK Manager a window opens as if there is no SDK manager saying:

"The Connect IQ Plug-in requires the Connect IQ SDK Manager" with a download option which seems strange, because the SDK manager should already be installed?

So my questions are:

1. Why is the Approach S62 not presented

2. If the reason is I have to upgrade, how do I do that?

Many thanks.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago

You want to upgrade to a CIQ 3.2 SDK. The newest is 3.2.5. Starting with 3.2, devices are separate from the SDK and the (new) SDK maniger is used to update devices.

See https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/b/news-announcements/posts/connect-iq-3-2-now-available

longtrousers over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thank you Jim, I managed.

A friend of me plays golf and that's how I noticed about the Approach 62. He really uses it for example to choose a club dependent on what the watch says about the distance to the hole.

However, my app does not run on that device: the Approach 62 does have less buttons and seems to have a touch screen.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to longtrousers

Yes, it's touch. If you use things like onNextPage and onPreviousPage instead of KEY_UP/KEY_DOWN in your delegate, it makes handling touch easier. If I recall, the middle button is onMenu, bottom button onBack.

longtrousers over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

The Approach 62 also comes with an error when

"Activity.getActivityInfo().currentPower" is called: he does not know "currentPower".

It really seems a dedicated golf-watch.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to longtrousers

No, you're seeing the same thing you'd see on a vivoactive or venu. A number of devices don't support power. You want to do something like a "has" check.

I have a number of apps for the S62, including one for hiking:

flowstate over 5 years ago in reply to longtrousers

longtrousers said:
The Approach 62 also comes with an error when

"Activity.getActivityInfo().currentPower" is called: he does not know "currentPower".

It really seems a dedicated golf-watch.

Supporting power is actually the exception, not the rule, amongst Garmin devices.

If you navigate to the currentPower documentation and click on View Supported Devices, you can see the full list of devices that support power:

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/Activity/Info.html#currentPower-var

Basically, it's bike computers (Edge), multisport watches (Forerunner 7xx, 9xx), outdoor watches (Fenix) and "special" variants of outdoor watches (D2, Descent, MARQ, Enduro, Epix).

All of these watches tend to be more expensive than similar running-focused watches (e.g. 235/245) or lifestyle/activity watches (e.g. Vivoactive and Venu).