Watchface: Glance

NEWS UPDATE:

BIG EASY IQ:

https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/1c8d4883-b4b2-49f3-b30c-954698cef794

EASY+:

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/7c993e2b-70b3-459a-bbe0-db48a89af5a8?tid=0

With introduction of Garmin Pay, I am starting to add a new payment option for some of my apps. The system is not flexible enough to just add Garmin Pay to existing apps, so I'll publish a copy of an app, with the same functionality but Garmin Pay as the payment provider.

The first one out is Glance Ultra (a copy of Glance Dual Screen):

https://apps.garmin.com/apps/1bed8f69-2e34-46e4-9786-3166fa3c6ab2?tid=0

EASY Round - 2023 #1 watch face of the year (by Garmin):

apps.garmin.com/.../9a619d99-3e5b-4eec-81e7-006655d797cc

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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TemanCL 11 days ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Thanks!

Mr.Christopher 11 days ago

I have been a long time user of Big Easy and jumped at the change to buy Big Easy IQ to help support your development. I didn't need the new features, but I did notice that the moon phase line was not avilable in Big Easy IQ (yet?).
I did notice one bug though, that I hope you can resolve pretty quickly. It looks like have a buffer overrun or string mis-index. When there is no notifcation icon on the bottom ude to no notifications, I get a "A" or "P" in that display location that corresponds to the current AM or PM condition.

MobileDriveway 11 days ago in reply to Mr.Christopher

Mr.Christopher said:
I did notice one bug though, that I hope you can resolve pretty quickly. It looks like have a buffer overrun or string mis-index. When there is no notifcation icon on the bottom ude to no notifications, I get a "A" or "P" in that display location that corresponds to the current AM or PM condition.

That is exactly the same behavior as in the regular BIG EASY. Abbreviated A (for AM) and P (for PM) esthetically looks better / balances with BT icon on the other side of seconds.

Mr.Christopher said:
I did notice that the moon phase line was not avilable in Big Easy IQ (yet?).

Since I have a Moon illumination metric, I decided not to use the Moon bar in the new apps anymore (EASY Round for example never had it). It was my invention to use Moon as a bar the GLANCE apps, but it was never as intuitive as a metric with an icon. I do keep it in the GLANCE apps series though.

Mr.Christopher 10 days ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Thank you for the prompt reply.
I do see now that I had the option enabled which clealy states to show A/P in place of notification. Doh.
The new moon field is great. I enabled it now and like the look.
There are so many settings. It's great to have the ability for so much customization, but the sheer number option can be hard to go through, especially with having to hit save, wait for sync, then go back in and scroll down the list again in ConnectIQ.

MobileDriveway 10 days ago in reply to Mr.Christopher

Mr.Christopher said:
especially with having to hit save, wait for sync, then go back in and scroll down the list again in ConnectIQ.

That is a Garmin choice to do it like this - a lot of users and developers (including myself) asked Garmin to change this behavior, but to no avail.

Mr.Christopher 10 days ago in reply to MobileDriveway

Oh, no worries. I don't blame the developers for that. It's clearly seems to be an implementation artifact of ConnectIQ.

6056694 9 days ago

Hi! I'd like to use pro version but having some issues with payment. I am from Uzbekistan and PayPal is not supportin any bank from here, and in option to pay by card there is no possibility to chose Uzbekistan. Is there any other way I can pay?

MobileDriveway 8 days ago in reply to 6056694

6056694 said:
Hi! I'd like to use pro version but having some issues with payment. I am from Uzbekistan and PayPal is not supportin any bank from here, and in option to pay by card there is no possibility to chose Uzbekistan. Is there any other way I can pay?

Yes. Please use Contact Developer for alternative payment methods. Thanks

nel50n 14 hours ago

Really nice watch face.

Is there an option to disable the new bar icons on the Glance Ultra version ?

kalintri 11 hours ago in reply to nel50n

LOL. I was the one who requested those icons because A) it took me a split second almost every time I looked at the watch face to remember which bar was for what, especially the middle top and bottom bars and especially when you add the changing second screen, and B) I saw that the icons already existed in one of the other Glance watch faces and figured it wouldn't be too difficult to implement.
I love the icons myself, but I guess this proves you can't please everyone. :)

That said, I agree that it would be good to have a setting to disable the bar icons for people who do not like them.
I also think that it would be a good idea to be able to set the bar icon colours independently from the bar colours, if possible and also independently for each bar icon, although I am not sure how difficult that would be to code or if it is even possible.

One more thing that I think is something to consider as an improvement for the future is redesigning the settings screen, as with all the options there, it is becoming quite cluttered and difficult to find specific settings. Maybe a good idea would be, if possible, to group the settings into various tabs. For example, one tab for configuring the metrics shown in each field, one tab for configuring the colours of each of the elements, one tab for the fonts and font options and so on...
I am not even sure if that is something that Garmin allows to code in that way, but if possible, it will be a good improvement. :)