Widgets can start in full screen mode or in Glance mode.
I only own an Instinct 2 and I cannot figure out how I can start the widgets in full-size mode. In the simulator though I can still set Settings->Glance Launch Mode.
As I understand its possible to configure the real fenix to show the widgets in glance mode or not.
I'm asking because I would like to know for which devices I really have to write code for the fill size widgets?
You can always have full screen widgets. On the Instinct2 for example, when the glance is in the middle, press the upper right button and it opens in full screen.
The glance:
press the upper right button:
It's the same on the real device.
On some devices (older ones), you can turn glances on or off. If on, it's just like the above. If off, you see the name and icon for a few seconds and then it opens in full screen as you move through the widget loop.
You can always have full screen widgets. On the Instinct2 for example, when the glance is in the middle, press the upper right button and it opens in full screen.
On some devices (older ones), you can turn glances on or off. If on, it's just like the above. If off, you see the name and icon for a few seconds and then it opens in full screen as you move through the widget loop.
Yeah that's part of Yeti's question -- for which devices can glances be turned off?
I'm asking because I would like to know for which devices I really have to write code for the fill size widgets?
TL;DR I would just write code for the full-size view no matter what, since it's only the newer watches which have glances that can't be turned off.
To address this question, there's two cases where you'd need to "really" implement a full screen view for widgets:
1) Devices which are so old they don't support glances at all. It's easy to check this by opening compiler.json under the device folder and looking under the top-level appTypes key. If "glance" isn't there, it doesn't support glances.
2) Devices which are new enough to support glances, but are old enough that they still support the ability to turn off glances. This is a bit trickier (I don't think this information is available in the SDK, but I could be wrong), but hopefully this support article should shed some light.
https://support.garmin.com/en-CA/?faq=Eg6DSXgpma697JGZZnhYc6
It lists devices which support glances, and it also lists devices which do not have the ability to turn off widget glances. Devices which can't turn off glances are all newer than devices which can.
So given that they're not in the group of devices in the "Widget glances cannot be turned off" note, and based on the knowledge that they're older, Fenix 6 and Forerunner 245 have the ability to turn off glances. But given that 255 and 955 are of the same "generation" as Fenix 7, and ppl have stated on the 955 forums that glances can't be turned off, it's probably safe to say that the support article hasn't been updated with all the latest watches. It would've been more helpful for Garmin to list the watches for which glances *can* be turned off, since that list is probably never going to change.
It would probably be simpler just to support full screen view for all your widgets unless you know for a fact that you're going to support only the latest watches, such as Epix 2, Venu 2/2S, Venu 2 Plus, Fenix 7, FR55, 745, 945 LTE, 255, 955, and any other watches that come out in the future.
And even then, you'd probably want to know for *sure* that the watches you target don't support turning off glances, as opposed to making an educated guess like this.
