Feature Request

Former Member over 7 years ago

I would like to be able to get more detailed data in screen swipe events, like position, distance, speed etc. on touchscreen enabled device apps. So far I can only get the direction of the swipe. Also, I would like to be able to get current touch position, not only when the user releases or touches the screen. It would also be nice to get duration of long press. It would also be useful to have a feature to display local images from the phone with the ability to zoom in the picture. It wouldn't be bad to add dark/light UI themes for the VA3, that apply for every app and every menu. It would be great to be able to connect watches to any bluetooth device, like a PC, without Garmin Connect Mobile, and be able to communicate with it in a Connect IQ app. Thanks in advance!

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago

Some of these things you really don't want to do. LIke trying to detect your own long touch or button press, - you want to stick with what's standard in the SDK. The reason being is watches do their own thing with long presses or touch. A long press on the va3 is "onMenu" for example", and for devices with hot keys, things can be assigned to those. Long press up on many devices in menu, and long press down is the music player on some.

jim_m_58 over 7 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

Some things you can probably use your own screen buttons for on touch devices, or use something like the start button to change what up/down are used for in your app (like pan/zoom works on devices with maps)