App settings behave in strange way

Hi, I am developing an CIQ app and I have strange issue with App settings

My settings are defined in properties.xml (see https://github.com/jurask/authentificator/blob/master/resources/properties.xml ). When I run the app in simulator, everything seems to be ok, just default values are never filled in. When I close the settings window and open it again the value in Type field disappears and when I click the edit button, strange error appears

When I upload the app to store and load it in the device, It allows me to edit the settings, but once I click save in Connect IQ Android app settings are lost and not saved at all. Is this an CIQ bug, or my properties.xml is bad?

Tested with CIQ SDK 4.2.2/4.2.3 running on linux and Garmin Instinct 2 solar

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago

Isn't it one of the long standing known bugs?

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/i/bug-reports/meta-bug-array-settings

forums.garmin.com/.../meta-bug-settings-groups

juras over 2 years ago

So if I understand it correctly settings in CIQ are so broken making it impossible to create any app, that requires more complex settings structure

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to juras

Yes, some of the new stuff in App Settings is broken, but you can probably get by without the new stuff. I don't use the new stuff in any of my dozens of published apps with app settings.

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Nobody uses them, not even Garmin, because a day after one would publish an app with them you would get a dozen emails from iOS users or everyone that it doesn't work

juras over 2 years ago

Unfortunatelly, it seems like there is nothing like QA at Garmin ... release software that is totaly broken ... get the feedback from users ... do not care at all. First time creating app for Garmin ... this is already 4th bug found in CIQ and I am goint to submit report for 5th soon.

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to juras

When you run into something, it's a good idea to search both the discussion and bug reports forums to see if's a known issue or the same things others are seeing. Here's a search of the bug reports for "settings group" for example, with a bunch of results: