Can a widget get user settings from Connect IQ?

Hi, I am making a widget, in which I want to request the remote server. But there is something that needs to be input by the user. I tried to search in the samples provided by Garmin, however not found. Is there any demo for app settings?

I merely found some information about watch face in the User Experience guide.

If your watch face is configurable, you should add settings to the application so it can be configured using the Connect IQ Store application. Make sure your app responds immediately once the user changes a configuration.

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flowstate over 5 years ago +1

Any app type, including widgets, can have app settings from Garmin Connect Mobile / Connect IQ app / Garmin Express.

li2niu said:
I tried to search in the samples provided by Garmin, however not found
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li2niu over 5 years ago in reply to flowstate +1

Thank you，FlowState

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flowstate over 5 years ago

Any app type, including widgets, can have app settings from Garmin Connect Mobile / Connect IQ app / Garmin Express.

li2niu said:
I tried to search in the samples provided by Garmin, however not found

The ObjectStore and ApplicationStorage SDK samples read from app settings. (You have to press UP or DOWN to change views).

Here's the app settings CIQ guide: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/core-topics/app-settings/

TL;DR to implement app settings, you define settings in a settings.xml file, and for each setting you define a corresponding property (also in XML). (Every setting must have a corresponding property, but not all properties have to a corresponding setting.)

A setting defines what you'll see in GC/CIQ, and the corresponding property holds the value that your app will access.

Then you access properties within your app:

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/core-topics/persisting-data/

Search: "Accessing Properties and Settings" on ^ this page.

For a real world example, you could look at the source for the popular Crystal watchface: https://github.com/warmsound/crystal-face

li2niu over 5 years ago in reply to flowstate

Thank you，FlowState

li2niu over 5 years ago in reply to flowstate

I searched “widget” in samples and found nothing using app settings. Aha，you reminded me the app settings function is universal for garmin application types. I will check the project ObjectStore.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to li2niu

Couple of things to note here.

While the ObjectStore sample in the SDK is a device app, if you change the app type from a watch-app to be a widget in the manifest.xml, it can see that app settings still works,

This comes into play for the 4.0 devices, as 4.0 turns widgets into "super apps", which are device apps that support glances. You can add a glance view to a device/watch app, and on 4.0 devices like the v2, you'll see the glance view