I'll be making an official announcement today--we quietly ushered beta 3 out last night, but there's also some device firmware on the way that we want to include in the announcement. :)
Thank you, Brandon! Please share more examples and info about Push Notifications. Also it is interesting if fenix 5 / 5s will support Map feature (of course simplified, without map layer itself, but scheme, courses, tracklogs, saved waypoints)?
based on what I see in the programer's guide, It sounds like the MapView is only on devices with maps. I just tried one of my apps that uses it in the sim (beta3) with an f5 target, and it errors out.
No, there will not be map support for those devices.
Yes. This is the intent.
how about FR645M and VA3 which has higher built in memory and ram? As there is some limit for music source from music app currently. That mean we still have plenty of memory from 3.5++GB
No, there will not be map support for those devices.
Hmm.. I have 2 related questions:
1) CIQ3 have new WatchUi.MapPolyline which can render route on map. But I don't see a way to load data to this object from persistent content or from current course in case of datafield. Is this or will be possible? 2) Will there be possibility to load persistent content not just by intent but with whole data available to CIQ app? I mean for example to load course/route data and do some processing on it. Even better to know where in the course currently I am - which allows me to process only selected number of coursepoints in lot of use cases. ;)
Take a look at the 3.0.0 beta3 Programmer's Guide, and the MapSample in the SDK. You can see how MapPolyline is used. Persistent Content isn't involved.
It's a way you use a native map and with a CIQ device app can place things on it, like the polyline and markers, using their locations on the map (lat/lon).
You can run the MapSample in the 3.0.0b3 sim with a f5x or edge 1030 target, or on a f5x device with the latest beta firmware.
I noticed that we have a few more CIQ3 beta firmwares available. The F5/F5s and FR935 have joined the F5x now all with CIQ3 beta firmware. I suspect that the final release is getting much closer. Looking forward to it.
