Possible to open a workout FIT file in App?

Former Member over 10 years ago

I am interested in creating a cycling app which will allow me to do a workout using 3s averaged power data, instead of instantaneous power. I found in the SDK documentation how you can record an activity, but not how to open an existing FIT file. Is this possible? IS it something that might be available in future versions of the ConnectIQ SDK?

Thanks,
Shep

travis.vitek over 10 years ago

ConnectIQ apps have no access to the file system, and no facilities for reading data from files at all. I'm sure one of the Garmin guys can give more detail and speak to future product directions in the morning.

Brandon.ConnectIQ over 10 years ago

I know that we have a task on the road map to allow custom data to be written to a FIT file. I've also opened a ticket to request the addition of the ability to read FIT data from previous recordings, but I don't know whether we'd be able to read from FIT files. The main issue is that file I/O on the devices is pretty slow, so it may not be practical to read directly from files. There are other concerns about opening up the file system, as well.