Hello!
First: sorry for whine, but, maybe this give some ideas to garmin developers.
I have ideas for two applications, I'd like to implement for fun. These apps don't relate to fitness, just exploiting the fact that I use fr920 as
everyday watches and it would be nice to use them for something more than just pedometer and time. I use them for running and biking too, but 80% of my time -- it's just a watch.
First app is to use fr920 as pomodoro timer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique) -- just a simple timer which counts down 25 minutes, buzzes and counts 5 minutes of rest time. I implemented a prototype as widget in a couple of hours and discovered than widgets just cannot be shown longer than 1 minute. And I have no way to change that -- after 1 minute watch just switch back to watch face. I don't want to implement this simple thing as a full-featured watch face, I'm pretty happy with default face. So stupid limits with even simplest problem! The only way to implement it is to make a custom training -- pomodoro. But it's not very convenient and logical.
Second app idea is to create a sleep tracker using accelerometer events to wake me up in fast sleep mode. And again, it's not possible by several reasons:
1. accelerometer events don't available to custom applications
2. there is no such thing as 'background app' and foreground widget have no way to work more than 1 minute.
Fail, again.
Hm, that's not funny, really. So, I'm stopping wasting my time and trying to do something for this 'platform'.
Guys, you're making great sport gadgets, but if you want to compete with apple and other watch manufacturers (which will steal all your ideas in a year-two) you need to be more flexible for developers. Struggling with your limitations is not a good investment.
