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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1318515 over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

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

What if you decrease the font size by 1px or so? And honestly I'm looking at my setup now and it seems like there is more than enough space for simple "-7" in addition to "SUN 3".

I know about the option of separate month + date metric, however it doesn't work according to the metrics that I want to use and it doesn't look good because of "I" symbol in the middle of it.

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to 1318515

Metric size is determined by maximum possible value: MON-28-10 will not fit.

Thanks

Quentin over 2 years ago

Thanks for your work!

Everything is very well balanced and well designed at the same time. I have one small remark though. I use Glance for the 7th generation Garmin watch (Fenix 7x): Would it be possible to make the functions touchable to access the widgets directly?

Have a nice day!

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to Quentin

Quentin said:
I use Glance for the 7th generation Garmin watch (Fenix 7x): Would it be possible to make the functions touchable to access the widgets directly?

Unfortunatelly Garmin doesn't provide touch interface to 3rd party IQ watch face apps, so it is impossible at the moment.

Davedela over 2 years ago

Thanks again for the great watch face. I'm loving it on my venu 2S. My question is about the wind speed field (which is AWESOME). How often is the field updated? From where does it get its data? I've not yet upgraded to the pro version yet as I find the open weather API thing a bit of a hassle, has that been sorted out? Will I see wind speed benefit with the pro version? Many thanks again!

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to Davedela

Davedela said:
My question is about the wind speed field (which is AWESOME). How often is the field updated? From where does it get its data? I've not yet upgraded to the pro version yet as I find the open weather API thing a bit of a hassle, has that been sorted out? Will I see wind speed benefit with the pro version? Many thanks again!

Garmin Weather provides wind speed - Garmin does not disclose refresh interval. Open Weather might have better data (depends on location). Here in Toronto Garmin Weather always shows Zero wind speed. Open Weather is more realistic here, but still not as good as local weather providers.

1377653 over 2 years ago

Hello!

I love your watch face, great amount of data but big and clear.

I have the Pro (and paid for) and I am trying to get weather on the top left. I have an API and entered it and set the field up but it’s just simply blank. Not sure what’s going on here. Thanks!

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to 1377653

1377653 said:
I am trying to get weather on the top left. I have an API and entered it and set the field up but it’s just simply blank. Not sure what’s going on here. Thanks!

Did you set Weather Provider to Open Weather in settings?

1377653 over 2 years ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Well that’s embarrassing. I had tried it before and nothing came up, but I obviously hadn’t had it set up right and now that I do it worked just fine. Thank you!!

MobileDriveway over 2 years ago in reply to 1377653

No problem. With so many settings even I get lost sometimes!