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 1861518

1861518 said:
how can I set the weather or wind display on my face？

Hi, all metrics are defined in app settings (through Connect IQ app on your phone). Thanks

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to 8092335

8092335 said:
Glance Pro AOD not working after epix2 update to 8.37. Watch face randomly refuse to enter into AOD mode. Please help to investigate, happen right after update to 8.37.

It might be happening on your watch only - I don't own Epix 2 anymore, so can't confirm. There were no changes to the app, so the problem is most likely with Garmin firmware or the update process. Try playing with different AOD options in app settings - setup the minimum display. Worst case, try Garmin support - they might recommend a watch reset or something else.

Thanks

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to a7c8fefcea704c52ade4daf2833aa025

a7c8fefcea704c52ade4daf2833aa025 said:
Love the watch face. Just curious if it will ever include some garmin native features like body battery or 7 day training load as metrics?

Body Battery and a lot more features are available and exclusive to "Glance Pro", give it a try!

Giannix over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

8.37 introduced annoying bugs so it's good to contact them via Forum. I've also a few on my Fenix 7 and honestly start to get annoyed.. Those watches are "tools" and it's supposed they must work...garmin should invest in their quality assurance

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to Giannix

I see a lot of reacurring bugs from Garmin. At one point Garmin Weather caused me a lot of grief, Connect IQ installs issues are a daily annoyance, the problems mentioned above, etc. Users first reaction is to blame the app. Truth is, there is absolutelly nothing an app can do to avoid issues happening in Garmin firmware / software. You can find that some Garmin feature "works" with one IQ app, but not with another (for example). Thing is, IQ apps are not suppose to affect Garmin functionality at all. It is a mistery why firmware would stop working as expected - only Garmin can tell that.

Unfortunatelly Garmin is very slow reacting to the issues. There are bugs that are sitting there for months (if not years) without much progress. Keep bugging them - hopefully they react faster to issues on their flagship devices.

Giannix over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Right ! I'll stop complaining after this...anyhow Garmin have a bit of an amateur approach on their software/app/ecosystem, like a 5-people run company...that conflicts with the price of their "tools" :-)

Not an easy life for you programmers also ! I was it at Windows Mobile 10 times so I know the pains behind writing codes and programmes for these stuff...

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to Giannix

I appreciate everyone posting their issues here - at very least I want to be aware of them. Sometimes I can help too - I read developers forum which ocasionally might have a solution.

However, I want to be clear about what I CAN and CAN NOT do. If it is possible to fix an issue in the app, I'll do it 100%, but Garmin features not working on some watch models are impossible to track and fix...

1318515 over 2 years ago

Hi bro! Awesome Watchface! Thank you for spending so much time on it!

1. I just purchased Glance PRO, but I have no clue where should I insert my code? I thought I should use the first settings field, however it is not clickable.

2. I also noticed, when I'm trying to change the "Weather Feels Like Temperature/Condition" it shows like "-". At the same time Weather Temperature/Condition works fine to me. I read your FAQ about this and proceeded all the steps with using the Garmin Weather widget. Maybe that's because I'm using Forerunner 245 and I don't have temperature feature inside?

Thanks in advance!

1318515 over 2 years ago in reply to 1318515

In addition I would be very grateful, if you could add the Date customisation option like: SAT 2-7 or SAT 2/7. Because JUL 2 or SAT 2 seems like not enough for the daily routine.

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to 1318515

1318515 said:
I just purchased Glance PRO, but I have no clue where should I insert my code? I thought I should use the first settings field, however it is not clickable.

You are probably trying to enter the code in Glance Watch Face settings. You need to install Glance Pro and enter the code there.

1318515 said:
"Weather Feels Like Temperature/Condition" it shows like "-". At the same time Weather Temperature/Condition works fine to me.

Garmin might not provide "Feels like" temperature for your location. It is fairly common - wind is always zero at my location.

1318515 said:
In addition I would be very grateful, if you could add the Date customisation option like: SAT 2-7 or SAT 2/7. Because JUL 2 or SAT 2 seems like not enough for the daily routine.

Longer date does not fit. You can use separate MONTH metric in addition to the DATE.