Hi guys,
as far as I have understood the main differences between Apps and Widgets are:
- Apps can access more APIs
- Apps can stay enabled all the time, so watch is not taking you back to watch face after 1 minute of inactivity
- Widgets can be added to the main carrousel
The main issue with Widgets seems to be the 1-minute-timeout. At least for those, that are handling a use case that requires the widget to stay open (in my case a stop watch). I have tried to compile my widget as an app and this worked without any problem. But it is not that nice to have 2 apps doing exactly the same thing :). So my questions are:
- is there a plan to remove the 1-minute-timeout from widgets? At least in a case where the widget started a timer that is still running? I know that this could be abused, but maybe Garmin finds a solution for this, like taking care of this in the app review.
- what about a mixed package that allows to use an app as WatchApp or WatchWidget? That way a user can decide how he wants to use it. This of course can only be done if no APIs are used that are restricted to one of the app types.
- is there currently any other way to publish a project as app and widget as simply compile it separately?
Thanks!
Bye
