How to implement weekly distance ran metric on watchface

Former Member over 2 years ago

Hello,

As I understand it, Garmin has opened up the API to allow developers to query for a distance ran metric to display on watchfaces

I've been trying for the three days and I'm getting no where.

Here's what I have

// distance ran       
        var useract = UserProfile.getUserActivityHistory();
        var distRanString = "00.0"; // test initialization to know if we step into the next line
        if(useract!=null){
            useract = useract.next();
            if(useract!=null){
                distRanString = useract.distance;
                distRanString = (distRanString * 0.0006213712).toFloat().format("%.1f"); // meters to mi
            }
        }              
        distRanString += "mi";
        var drString = View.findDrawableById("drStringLabel") as Text;
        drString.setText(distRanString);
        
        // outputs 00.0mi in sim and a random five digit number on watch

flocsy🤠 over 2 years ago

If you want the weekly distance then try for another 4 days

But sarcasm aside, you're only reading the 1st or last activity from the history, that will not give you the weekly distance

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago

If you are on a device with CIQ System 6, there is a complication for this:

COMPLICATION_TYPE_WEEKLY_RUN_DISTANCE

Search the discussion forum as there are some examples of how to use complications. It's much easier than looking in UserProfile.

Former Member over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

could you please point me to where I could look, I'm new here and searching for the keyword yields this discussion

Former Member over 2 years ago in reply to flocsy🤠

I see, how would I go about rectifying this

thank you!

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member

Here's a video from the GDVC last Oct about complications:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOcQ3cY5W4A

Here's doc on complications:

https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/core-topics/complications/

jim_m_58 over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Here's a thread with samples (read the thread as a few things have changed since it started:
https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/315443/here-are-a-few-complication-samples#pifragment-1298=3

Former Member over 2 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thank you so much!

so in theory since this is a native complication I could just

 var complication = Complications.getComplication(
    new Id(Complications.COMPLICATION_TYPE_WEEKLY_RUN_DISTANCE)
);
System.println(complication.value);

directly right? and it would just always spit out the most up to date weekly run distance metric in meters correct?

The context being that specific block of code just sits in onUpdate() or would I need to do something with subscribeToUpdates()?