Is it possible to use makeRequest or something similar to receive an image from server?

I have a watchface that where I'm trying to make a request to a web server, and it would simply return an image as an answer.
This image would then be displayed... dc.drawBitmap(x, y, image) ....
Is this possible to achieve, or is it just possible with a widget?

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jim_m_58 over 1 year ago +1

With a watch face you can only do a makeWebRequest/makeImageRequest in a background service, but with that, a watch face can get an image (once every 5 minutes at most).

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jim_m_58 over 1 year ago

With a watch face you can only do a makeWebRequest/makeImageRequest in a background service, but with that, a watch face can get an image (once every 5 minutes at most).

kemppaij over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

Thanks jim_m_58

Do you have a small sample, I know how to retrieve JSON data, but how to return an image and return it on the watchface.
Let's say I would have this image:

https://static.garmincdn.com/com.garmin/ui/images/logo/garmin_logo_on_w.png

how would I display that image with dc.drawBitmap or similar?

kemppaij over 1 year ago in reply to kemppaij

actually I found a solution. makeImageRequest works in background process and I'm able to display the image.