Array Resources - JSON

Former Member over 8 years ago

Hey all -

I am trying to make my app more compatibly with other devices. Part of my app uses a couple of drawable class extensions that draw things based on coordinates related to screen size/shape.

I know I can pull the system screen shape/width/height and then use a bunch of if/else statements to do this, but I'd rather have the coordinates defined in resources than to cobble up a bunch of sloppy code.

When looking at: https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/programmers-guide/resource-compiler/ I thought using the "JsonData" type to store an array for this - but that doesn't seem to be valid. At least I can't seem to get the resource compiler to recognize JsonData as a valid resource type.

So I suppose I have two questions:

1) What is the minimum SDK version which supports Json resouces
2) Is there a more elegant way to do what I am trying to do? I know a lot of people support devices with different screen sizes/shapes so I can't be the first one trying to do something like this.

Thanks!

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

Ok, I kind of think you may be looking at the wrong thing.

You want your app to understand different devices right off the bat, including images sized for that device,
look at "resource overrides" in the programmer's guide.

You can know a bunch of things during compile time.

And if you need more, look at "build file excludes" Device specific code, controlled by resource overrides.

Check out the simple sample here:

https://forums.garmin.com/showthread.php?375425-Here-s-a-very-simple-sample-of-quot-build-excludes-quot

OttawaDeveloper over 8 years ago

JsonData or is it jsonData?
The capital letter at start may mess you up.

Former Member over 8 years ago

Thanks for the replies.

I am aware of resource overrides, and I'm using them - although I didn't want to override an entire mc file.

I am using drawable params at the moment with success.

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

If you want to use json data in resources, You'll want to use the newest sdk (2.3.1), but nor sure as far as which VMs on watches support it. It could only be the 2.3.x devices, or could be all devices. I've been looking around and not seen anything specific, which might mean, once it's compiled with 2.3.1, it works on any. Can you just try it on a device?