Hi everyone,
I started recently developing an app for Garmin devices, using an old Intel Macbook Air and everything goes fine.
Recently, I got myself a new Macbook Air M3, ARM chip, and I can't get anything to run properly: when I launch the program to run on the watch simulator, the simulator's window start showing up, but then nothing loads into it, and Visual Studio Code complains about the simulator not being reachable.
I tried a few things:
- try to deploy the app various times > nothing changes
- kill VSCode and launch again, while simulator still on > nothing changes
- kill the simulator and launch the app again > nothing changes
- use VMWare Fusion to run Windows ARM > issues with some DLL, and then once fixed, the garmin SDK won't just launch.
- use VMWare Fusion to run Windows x64 > super slow, unusable
- Delete the Garmin IQ SDK and download again > no changes
So here goes my question: is it, as of today, possible to develop a Garmin app using a ARM computer? If so, can you please indicate the way to go, in order to prevent hours of trying making it work.
I am already thinking about dropping the Garmin app support and stay focused on iOS and Android apps for this reason..