Background task for complication/glance preview?

Good morning,

I have written a widget/glance and now would like to add a complication, mainly as preview for the glance. My widget/glance obtain data via web requests in regular intervals and display it. This is done in my main application via a timer. Do I understand it correctly that for a complication to work, I'll have to move this into a background process that regularly does the requests and supplies complication/widget/glance with the data?

Regards, Robert

jim_m_58 over 1 year ago

With a publisher you want a background service if you want the consumer to see update when the widget isn't running.

Here's a very simple publisher and consumer:

https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/353286/sample-of-ciq-complication-publisher-and-consumer-of-those-complications

If you have a watch with complications, Two of my weather widgets publish complications, with the default updates being every 15 minutes

OWM: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/6a740b9d-7bba-4ed8-bedd-2cabaef4bdcf

Weather Underground: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/f509fc4e-7f1f-48a5-b337-ed86668c5f6c

You can use Faceit and use it as a consumer, but there to see the update you need to leave the watchface and come back to see an update last I checked.

Here's a whole thread about a CIQ Publishers and FaceIt: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/discussion/352175/face-it-and-ciq-complications

I have a watch face of my own that works too, that updates as it should:

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/c051f37a-8fad-4907-b124-0112fe010c91

With on-device settings you can use Garmin as a weather source, or OWM/WU if you have the widgets installed.

the-ninth over 1 year ago in reply to jim_m_58

Many thanks, I'll have a look at those examples!