App settings editor doesn't show any settings

Hi,

The Eclipse app settings editor doesn't show any setting of one of my watchfaces. Other apps still work. The editor seems to load the settings but the resulting setting screen stays blank.

Has anyone an idea what's going on and how I can debug this? On the console no hint is given.

topcaser over 8 years ago

OK, I got it running. Maybe this was the problem: I converted a boolean setting to a numeric list setting. And maybe there were compatibility issues. I renamed that setting temporarily and now all works as expected.

jim_m_58 over 8 years ago

In general, you don't want to change the type of a property that's already in use by an app in the store.

Let's say in version 1, that property was a boolean, and treated as such in your code. In version 2 of your app, it's a number.

A user could have version 1 running on their watch, but with GCM, will get version 2 settings from the app store for that app. So the app on the watch is expecting a boolean, but is seeing a number. And a crash of your app may result. One that would be hard for you to reproduce.

The safest thing is to use a new property if you want to change the type