Anyone who has some nice icons for bluetoth enabled, alarm, notitifcations, sunrise/set? Would be nice of garmin to provide with the sdk so that there is something easy to use without hazzle in a watch face.
I asked a similar question about a year ago, but also suggested that CIQ allowed access to the icons used by native stuff on the watches. (that would include things like "sensors" (HR, footpod, Tempe, etc).
There are about 3 ways people do icons in CIQ:
A custom "iconfont", where for example, the alarm icon would be just displaying "A" in that font. This has the advantage where you can easily change the icon's colors, etc. Because it's a font, they are fixed size.
Bitmaps for the icons. Again, fixed size, but if you want to change colors, you have to have different bitmaps for each color.
"draw them on the fly". Depending how this is done, they can be resized, and the colors can be be changed. The drawback is that a bunch of "draw" calls are involved and not quite as "battery friendly"
I asked a similar question about a year ago, but also suggested that CIQ allowed access to the icons used by native stuff on the watches. (that would include things like "sensors" (HR, footpod, Tempe, etc).
There are about 3 ways people do icons in CIQ:
A custom "iconfont", where for example, the alarm icon would be just displaying "A" in that font. This has the advantage where you can easily change the icon's colors, etc. Because it's a font, they are fixed size.
Bitmaps for the icons. Again, fixed size, but if you want to change colors, you have to have different bitmaps for each color.
"draw them on the fly". Depending how this is done, they can be resized, and the colors can be be changed. The drawback is that a bunch of "draw" calls are involved and not quite as "battery friendly"
Yeah I know these are the options and I think they are all great for people who really want to customize their watch face. I agree, getting access to the native icons would be great and provide easier learning curve for monkey c newbs like me who primary want to focus on my custom features of my watchface, not the "boilerplate" so to say.
Have a look at the Google Material Design icons. They are open source, available in various formats, and sizes, and are intended to be used with devices.
Anyone who has some nice icons for bluetoth enabled, alarm, notitifcations, sunrise/set? Would be nice of garmin to provide with the sdk so that there is something easy to use without hazzle in a watch face.
Thanks
I'm trying to make a watch face with sunrise/sunset, moonrise/moonset and the draw of the moon representing the moon phase each day, could you say me how you program to show sunrise/sunset?
