I would like to improve my bitmap graphics in my watch face. Here is an example of the problem I'm facing:
As you can see in the picture above, the man to the left is what I actually get. The man to the right is what is actually in the .png file. It is actually only a 25 x 25 pixel file.
Thanks.
You definitely made my day!!! Thank you so much!
Now I have to try and see if automaticPalette="false" works in darkMode as well...
Also I do have a Mac and I haven't found an easy way to build .fnt from .svg images.
As mentioned in the other recent thread where this was discussed, you should be able to use this procedure…
Now I have to try and see if automaticPalette="false" works in darkMode as well...
Again not to state the obvious, but since automaticPalette is applied by the resource compiler, the resulting bitmap will be same regardless of whether you have a white or black background at runtime.
The problem here is that your icon will probably be nearly invisible if the background is black.
Here's some possible solutions:
- I need to dig up the example I'm thinking of, but some devs get around this by designing icons that look good either on a white or black background.
For example, you could draw a white outline around all the black lines in your icon (not just on the outside, but also on the inside.) When the background is white, the outline will be invisible, but when the background is black, it will be crucial.
EDIT: here's the example I was thinking of:
The stopwatch + timer launcher icon looks good (well, ok) on either a black or white background, due to the black outline around the white lines.
- Another way to approach this would be to have two sets of icons: one for light mode and one for dark mode.
- You could use a font for your icons, so that it could be drawn in the solid colour of your choice (white or black), and any anti-aliasing would be performed on the device
- You could use a single set of single colour bitmaps, and swap the palette from white to black or vice versa. Of course the whole point of this thread is to avoid using a single colour for your bitmaps.... (This would only work if you could handcraft bitmaps which look perfect at the resolution of your choice without any anti-aliasing.)
