How do I make an app that will take user defined values from their phone in the connect IQ app and incorporate them into the app?

7671899 2 days ago

Case use: A skydiving application that takes a GPS coordinate via Latitude and Longitude, and Elevation and incorporates the position into an app that allows essentially waypoint distance and bearing from the users current position.

I'm having trouble finding references as to how to interface the phone connect iq app and an app i've written. At this time, I've been able to define specific latitude, longitude, and elevation in the program, but I don't want to have to go into the code and change those values every time I want to use a different location. Is there an easier way to have a user defined configurable variable? In my mind, I'm imagining the app in Connect IQ with settings that allow you to input those values. Thanks in advance!

0 flowstate 3 hours ago

You're thinking of app settings, which are modified in the Connect IQ phone app, like you mentioned: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/core-topics/properties-and-app-settings/

You also have the option of implementing a settings interface in your CIQ app itself:

- for a device app, just directly implement the settings UI yourself [*]. Typically a device app will respond to KEY_MENU by pushing some sort of global or context-sensitive menu. The entirety of this menu UI can be your settings, or your settings can be some subset of that UI

- for a data field or watch, provides on-device settings by implementing AppBase.getSettingsView() and returning a view which implements your settings UI

[*] i.e.

- push a Menu2 view when the user triggers the KEY_MENU shortcut - on 5-button watches, the user holds the UP button

- implement settings as items in the Menu2

- read and persist settings values using Application.Properties: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/core-topics/persisting-data/