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Handling of Buttons on a vivoactive hr

Former Member
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When I use the builtin apps for walking on my vivoactive hr, I can activate the tracking and then use the left button to go back to the widgets and cycle to clockface and hr monitor and so on. When I press the right button I get back to the walking app.

Can I get the same behavior with my own app? In my test app I can disable the left back button depending on the state of my app, but if it is active it closes my app instead of keeping it active in the background.
  • With native apps, you can get to the "widget loop" (the watchface and widgets), but you can't do that with CIQ watch-apps. In a watch-app the left button is onBack().

    In native apps, a long press of the screen on a vahr will also take you to the widget loop (In case you have the lap key enabled) but again, that won't work in a CIQ watch-app.
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    This feature of the native apps is one of the important features of the watch for me. When I go hiking I really like the walking app with the gps tracking, but it is also very useful to have the widgets available. I often use this feature to get the time using the watchface and also the heartreate graph and the weather forecats.

    I cannot understand why this is not available for CIQ apps and for me this quite kills the motivation to use or even develop add on apps for vahr.
  • It's the same with all CIQ watches and has been this way since the beginning.

    If you Hike and want much of the info you mention, I do know of an app called Hike 2. :) (I had to remove weather data a bit back, as I'm looking for a new source) But an hr graph, temp graph, elevation graph, as well as a "map" and compass are there. 10+ screens of data

    It's just a matter of adding screens to your watch-app for the things you want.
  • Former Member
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    In general I quite like the watch and the CIQ app on Android as well, but there are some things that quite annoy me. If it has always been this way and nobody else minds, it might be me. ;)

    The first thing is the inconsistency of the UI. As a user I don't care if it is a native app or not, I just want to use the apps in consistent way. Otherwise I always have to think what type of app I currently use.

    The second thing is that, as a developer, I have to make all the information available in my app. The information is already available in perfectly good way with the widgets. Additionally I cannot add screens for information that is available in user specific widgets.

    I have already installed your app, and I think is quite neat. I will give it definetly a try next time I go hiking. Maybe I can get used to the CIQ way of thinking after all. ;)