n00b question about submitting an app

so i figured out how to make the .iq file in Eclipse.

i'm assuming this is the submission page: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/developer/upload

but it's asking for a ZIP file. what more than the .iq file is needed? what's in the ZIP file?

also, the "Build Project For Device" generated a .prg file which was more than double the size of the .iq file. is the .iq file more compressed?

and finally, when i got too graphics happy and added too many images i got several 'out of memory' errors. i even got a blank screen on the Vivoactive when i put this big file in the APPS folder. it said system storage was 0. so is there only a certain amount of memory allocated for apps on the Vivoactive? the file was only 350kb.

thanks.

jim_m_58 over 10 years ago

the ".iq" file is actually a zip file itself. Try just using it's name.

FuziDave over 10 years ago

thanks.
the .iq is all that is required.

Former Member over 10 years ago

also, the "Build Project For Device" generated a .prg file which was more than double the size of the .iq file. is the .iq file more compressed?

The build for device wizard creates a debug build of the app. We're adding an option to create a release build from that wizard as well but for now that's what the discrepancy in size is.

and finally, when i got too graphics happy and added too many images i got several 'out of memory' errors. i even got a blank screen on the Vivoactive when i put this big file in the APPS folder. it said system storage was 0. so is there only a certain amount of memory allocated for apps on the Vivoactive? the file was only 350kb.

Apps are restricted to 64 KB when executing so it is easy to hit the memory limit using a lot resources. It sounds like you're saying you couldn't copy the file over to the watch's file system (is that correct?). The vivoactive I have connected to my computer shows 1.5 MB free so I would expect you should be able to copy it over.

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

I commented about this on another thread earlier, but I'll mention it here to: I've asked to have the wording changed on the app store upload page. Even though a zip file format is technically correct, it's caused confusion for several people since:

* The app store won't take just any zip file
* The output of the app export wizard is a .iq not a .zip

Apologies for the trouble!