Watchface: Glance

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GLANCE WATCH FACE app won THE BEST NEW WATCH FACE APP OF 2022 ! At the Developers conference Garmin announced nominees and winners for the best apps in different categories. Glance Watch Face was nominated and won in the best new watch face category ! Garmin didn't post the video from the conference yet, but it was already reported by other websites: https://the5krunner.com/2022/10/12/garmin-app-watchface-of-the-year-2022-ciq-winners-and-nominees-announced/

The idea for this app is simple:
- Use only large fonts, so that all data are visible at a glance (hence the name of the app: Glance )
- Put as much data on the screen as possible, without sacrificing font size above
- Make all data fields customizeable to your needs
- Make colors customizeable as much as possible, so users can create their own design

The "Glance Watch Face" app is 100% FREE - no hidden restrictions, nagging, or expiration:
https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/07ae ... 07e8035fae

There is also a mostly free app - BIG EASY: apps.garmin.com/.../86ec352b-da01-4806-8972-770c6d32a5e8

There are also two paid versions of this app - "Glance Pro":

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/ac4be3ce-f0f3-4c49-be01-5fa52614ab2b

and "Glance Dual Screen":

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/5c0fe72b-f045-4366-a878-d3e67c600868

Paid versions are identical to the free version (so no worries, FREE doesn't mean bad!), but have a lot of extra features features:

Open Weather Map support
Setting for TIME font weight
New way to use shared color themes
Support for many new metrics (like Body Battery, Stress Level, and lots more)
Extra progress bars and Graphs (in Dual Screen only)
Two separate data screens (in Dual Screen only)
A lot more - see apps description for the full list
You have an opportunity (and a small incentive) to support the development

Unique feature of the Glance apps - you can save your own Color Themes and quicly switch between them righ on the watch.

NEW: Now you can SHARE your Color Theme! You can also quickly apply Color Themes shared with you. Here is a full description of how it all works: https://www.mobiledriveway.com/glance.html#color

Here is the current Color Themes Gallery: https://www.mobiledriveway.com/glance_gallery.html

Color themes are compatible between "Glance" and "Glance Pro" (except for "inactive status icons color", which became obsolete in "Pro").

I'd love to see all color combinations you came up with. Please post your themes in the Reviews and I'll add them to the gallery!

Questions and suggestions are welcome!

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MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to 8064572

Yes, everything still works in all versions - I will never remove any significant features from the free version.

Please check FAQ about weather:

Thanks. Please check FAQ about weather: www.mobiledriveway.com/glance.html

It is Garmin Weather issue.

7985606 over 2 years ago

Is it possible to add a data field option for “Day of Year”?

5243640 over 2 years ago in reply to 7985606

And "Vo2 max"?

5646091 over 2 years ago

Love the concept, however I’d really like to be able to choose what UTC offset to use for the main time field. System time if great but I’d like to have UTC as my main source and set time 1 & 2 to other offsets. Thanks.

Emil L over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

After the last update, I set the weather to OWM. Didn't work yesterday night, but noticed that it was working fine for at least half an hour (set it to update @ 15 minutes) around lunch. Really enjoyed seeing the weather on my watch match the outside ... and then it stopped working again; last weather update is 13:14 (over 2 hours ago). How does the diagnostics work – can I send you a log or something?

8064572 over 2 years ago in reply to Emil L

I still can’t get my weather to work either.

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to Emil L

Emil L said:
Really enjoyed seeing the weather on my watch match the outside ... and then it stopped working again; last weather update is 13:14 (over 2 hours ago). How does the diagnostics work – can I send you a log or something?

Thanks for the update. Please add "Weather diagnostic" metric to the watch face. If you notice a refresh delay, please post the metric value here, along with the actual delay (current time minus last weather update time). When you post it, I'll explain the values there and tell you what is probably happening. Thanks!

Emil L over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Cool solution! It says 200:174 (and last update at 13:14 still).

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to Emil L

Thanks a lot!

200 is last return code that was received, and in this case it was successfull (200 means OK).

174 is minutes when it was last received. That is not so good, as it should have been updated sooner.

Let me check to see what could cause it, I'll get back to you.

Thanks

Emil L over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Some more info: I noticed that restarting the watch tended to force an update, so I started to think about what could be the problem. I have a Garmin Venu 2 Plus, on which the display turns off when not ... glancing at it. Thought that could be the culprit (something like the 15 min countdown only being active when the screen was active – I am not a programmer so that's just a wild guess), so I turned it to "always on" – seemed to work for two 15 minute cycles and then stopped :/

Noticed the new update ~50 min ago :) Was stuck with time from last night (weather TIME something like 20:11) but it just began working. I'll post a metric when fresh weather data stops coming in.