Classic analog watchface - can someone try it?

Former Member over 7 years ago

Hi everyone!

I'm very new to the Garmin watch party and to developing. I'm in fact so new that I don't own a watch yet. And that's exactly what this post is all about.

Currently, I'm an avid user of analog watches, but wanted to track my 24/7 HR for a while. It seems that the Garmin Vivoactive 3 would be an ideal start for that. However, as I really don't like too busy watch faces throughout the day at work, I wanted to give a Swiss classic a shot, the "Bahnhofsuhr", or railway clock in English. It's a local design classic that has gotten quite a bit of attention with Apple integrating it in their design a few years ago. I thought it would be quite neat to sport one of these faces on my own Garmin watch.

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The Bahnhofsuhr.

I tried a few approaches and now went with a static anti-aliased background image with polygons and primitives for hands. I thought about antialiasing it (with bitmaps), but I was annoyed that I would have to generate many positions for the hour hand - or then suffer from a jumping hour hand, something I'd like to avoid.

Now I have no idea how this will really look like on a Garmin 240x240 screen. Is someone willing to try it and post a photo of how it looks on a fenix 5 or a Vivoactive 3? This will help me decide if I will get one myself, and maybe even get more active in the developing community. Also, you'd have my eternal thanks.

The current version is a quick mockup, it only runs correctly on 240x240 screens and is not commented properly. It's available on Github.

My sincere thanks go to ftrimboli for his very helpful tutorials and sample codes. I snatched the polygon rotate function from you, hope it's OK. As soon as I'm getting more active, I want to add my thanks to the source file and adapt it for different resolutions. Also, I'd like to give the font-based watch hands a try, if you/he'd be willing to share the tool to generate the font files.

Looking forward to a good time here on the forums!

TL;DR

I don't own a watch yet
I programmed a watch face
Can someone try it, pretty please? (240x240 only)
Many thanks to ftrimboli.

Best,
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a1234.garmin over 7 years ago

How it looks in devices:

Source code slightly modified : added DEU resources, translated to Deutsch, RUS resources added, translated to Russian.
I suggest to optimize rotatePoint() to have pre-calculated table with cos/sin values. It will not consume CPU time.
Please do not forget to edit all files in UTF-8 encoding without BOM, this allows to store native characters set and supported by CIQ compiler. In Eclipse you should state it in project settings.

Trottile over 7 years ago

Be Aware: the design of the "Schweizer Bahnhofsuhr" is protected by MONDAINE Watch Ltd.

Former Member over 7 years ago

Thanks to both of you for the quick replies!

a1234.garmin
Thanks a lot for your suggestions, I will try to take them into account once I get to work on the code again. I was totally unaware of the UTF-8 encoding part. Also, I wouldn't have realized that minimizing CPU time is more important than minimizing storage; but this of course makes a lot of sense.

A special thanks for the pictures of the watches! I am pleasantly surprised how the watch faces look, i thought the aliasing will be a bigger problem. Now on to decide whether it will really be a vivoactive 3!

Trottile
Thank you! It's a point that was already bothering me before I submitted it here and still is. I couldn't find a document online as to what is allowed and what not. As pictures of the watch can be found on Wikipedia and elsewhere on the web, I assumed that using the face for my own purpose (and publishing the source on github) should be reasonable, as I won't put it in the Connect IQ store and of course won't monetize it.
Do you by chance have any experience as to whether this usage might be problematic? If yes, I will definitiely remove it from the public domain again.

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

Something you may consider is app-settings. If you decide to use them for options/colors/etc, the app must be in the app store if you want to use GCM or Garmin Express to change those settings. You can mark it as a "beta" so only you can download it.

Former Member over 7 years ago

Is there a way to create a plain and simple analog watch face, where the numbers change to 13, 14, 15 etc at noon?,

BenJB over 2 years ago in reply to Former Member

Hi, I was looking for this exact watch face, there's one on there, but it's not for vivoactive3, can I use yours, please?