GPS ready

Former Member over 8 years ago

I have written an app with Connect IQ that gets the current GPS location and makes JSON call to get the sunrise / sunset data.
What I want to do is inform the user when the GPS is ready so they aren't guessing when to press the button to initiate the call.
I know when I use the built in running app on my Forerunner 920xt, it says "waiting for GPS" and then "GPS Ready"
How can i do this in Connect IQ?
Any thoughts?

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travis.vitek over 8 years ago +1

There are several ways to handle this. The easiest way is to display a drawable or a progress bar when you're waiting for the GPS to be acquired. Here is an example of that...

using Toybox.Application…

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jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

What you're describing, it seems you're doing a widget and not a watch app. On most devices, there is a widget timeout - it can be as short as 10 seconds (the va was this way but I've not checked lately) or a minute or two.

Sounds like you're not getting a GPS lock before the timeout. What device are you on, and are you in "clear sky"?