How to link to ConnectIQ app with the new apps.garmin.com schema?

Probably I missed something, so that question might sound stupid. Most of my support is via email - mostly about the Garmin ConnectIQ-app not syncing/freezing. Occasionally user ask about my other apps and I was able to just copy the URL from apps.garmin.com and send that via email (and it opened in the ConnectIQ app on their end). How can I get the same link now? apps.garmin.com doesn't let me browse the apps anymore without the app so I can't just copy&paste the URL from my browser.

Thanks a lot!

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flowstate 2 days ago

1) Use the old developer dashboard (https://apps.garmin.com/developer/dashboard)

- Open https://apps.garmin.com/developer/dashboard directly

- Log in with your developer credentials - you will see a list of all your apps, as before

- Navigate to the app you want to share

- Copy the URL from your browser's address bar

- Share the URL

2) Use the new developer dashboard (https://apps-developer.garmin.com/en-US/developer/dashboard)

- Open https://apps-developer.garmin.com/en-US/developer/dashboard

- Log in with your developer credentials - you will see a list of all your apps, as before

- Navigate to the app you want to share

- Copy the URL from your browser's address bar

- Paste the URL into a text editor

- In the text editor, edit the URL by changing apps-developer.garmin.com to apps.garmin.com

- Share the edited URL

3) Use the Connect IQ store app (iOS):

- Navigate to the app you want to share

- Press the share button in the top right corner

This will copy the apps.garmin.com address for the app to your clipboard

- Share the URL

4) I assume the Connect IQ app for Android has a similar procedure to 3), but I haven't tried it

flocsy🤠 2 days ago in reply to flowstate

3-4 is the same with android, but make sure you remove the language from the url:

https://apps.garmin.com/he-IL/apps/4debed0e-4266-495e-8215-a3a8755ee87a => https://apps.garmin.com/apps/4debed0e-4266-495e-8215-a3a8755ee87a

that way it'll open in their preferred language.

flocsy🤠 1 day ago

Brandon.ConnectIQ Kyle.ConnectIQ FYI

bruderjakob 1 day ago in reply to flowstate

Thank you! Was not aware that 1) is still available. What's the point of having apps-developer.garmin.com then?

3) and 4) I knew of, but for writing emails I prefer a physical full-sized keyboard - you can probably tell now that I'm old.

flowstate 12 hours ago in reply to bruderjakob

bruderjakob said:
What's the point of having apps-developer.garmin.com then?

I think it's because https://connect.garmin.com (the old CIQ home page) no longer has a link to the developer dashboard. It's now just an ad for the Connect IQ iOS and Android apps. You have to use the direct link to the dashboard mentioned above.

In contrast, https://apps-developer.garmin.com exists only to give devs access to the CIQ dashboard.

It's also conceivable that Garmin will eventually remove the developer dashboard from the old location.

As someone else pointed out in the bug reports section, one problem with apps-developer.garmin.com app URLs is that they do *not* open in the Connect IQ app, meaning that they're useless for sharing with end users (they won't be able to install any such apps which are shared in this way).

All of this kinda seems like a mess to me. Even Google Play and the iOS app stores are still on the web, if only to facilitate search engine indexing. Sure, you have to use the corresponding app to actually install apps from those stores, but the website seamlessly opens the app when you click the install button.

Now it seems that if some new CIQ app becomes popular, nobody will be able to find it with google. Maybe that's what Garmin wants idk.

bruderjakob said:
3) and 4) I knew of, but for writing emails I prefer a physical full-sized keyboard - you can probably tell now that I'm old.

You could just paste the link into an email on your phone, save it as a draft, and continue working on it from a computer.

If you have iOS and Mac, you can share the clipboard between your iphone and your mac if you're logging into the same iCloud account. Or you could use the Notes app to share text with yourself. If you have an Apple Silicon (not Intel) Mac, you can even run iPhone apps like Connect IQ on your Mac.

If you're on PC, you could use OneNote or some other note-taking app to share text. You could just keep a single google doc open as a "scratch pad" for sharing stuff with yourself.

Sometimes it can be very useful to start a task on mobile or desktop and continue it on desktop or mobile, although the handoff is not always efficient.