Look and feel of generic picker

thubalek over 3 years ago

Hi, I'm implementing custom picker but I found that it looks differently than picker eg in timer app (on my Fenix 6X).

Timer app picker looks nice (has white background, black top with title)

native picker

but my picker looks extremely boring and unintuitive.

Normal picker

Can I somehow customize it to achieve the same look like system apps do have?

Thanks for help

Tom

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Dresbo over 1 year ago in reply to bombsimon +2

I'll dig it out and share it with you here. It was a while back, but I don't think it was that much code
thubalek over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58 +1

Yeah, I know they look differently (they have to be different on touch display capable devices).

But why my picker does look significantly uglier than picker of system apps on the same device?

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0 jim_m_58 over 3 years ago

One thing is the native pickers on various devices don't look the same. So what you see on the f6 isn't the same on everything.

0 thubalek over 3 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Yeah, I know they look differently (they have to be different on touch display capable devices).

But why my picker does look significantly uglier than picker of system apps on the same device?

0 Dresbo over 3 years ago in reply to thubalek

For what it's worth I abandoned the custom picker and created a WatchUI.View with a delegate (for a auto lap distance picker). This gives full control over the look and feel.

The default number picker (on my Vivoactive 3 at least) was not good at all.

0 thubalek over 3 years ago in reply to Dresbo

I wish Garmin either fixed implementation in next version of SDK or created something like Compat libraries are on Android.

I'm sure no developer is happy with current implementation of system picker.

Creating picker well is not as trivial task as it looks at first sight so why to force developers to reinventing wheel?

0 Dresbo over 3 years ago in reply to thubalek

I would say it didn't take me anywhere near as long as I feared it might . You're more than welcome to my lap distance picker code if you want a head start. It's not exactly what you want, but might help

0 bombsimon over 1 year ago in reply to Dresbo

I'd love to see some code examples as I'm currently writing my own picker now. I would generally love to have the system native number picker put I can do with my own. My biggest issue though is that I can't find a way to render the text in each factory containing the previous pickers state.

I'm basically using a copy of the picker example from the SDK and it works fine showing one number at a time but I would like to show all picker values at the same time as I'm doing a time setter (MM:SS). It looks like your code does that so that would be interesting to look at.

0 Dresbo over 1 year ago in reply to bombsimon

I'll dig it out and share it with you here. It was a while back, but I don't think it was that much code