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Watchface: Glance

MobileDriveway
over 2 years ago

NEW: Just published a new app - EASY Round. Give it a try!

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

EASY Round

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 Slight smile! 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 Slight smile

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!

  • 2 months ago in reply to MobileDriveway

    Sorry - I am using Big Easy. I was using Glance before and had the same issue. 

  • 2 months ago in reply to MobileDriveway

    thx u...very on the mark and helpful

    Love the watch face!!!

  • 2 months ago in reply to 7756923

    BIG Easy doesn't support theme strings - only Glance series apps do. In BIG Easy you can only apply stock themes through Watch Face > Customize menu on the watch.

  • 2 months ago in reply to MobileDriveway

    Thank you - I have been trying to do it via the connect app settings. 

  • 2 months ago

    Hi MD, thanks for building a great app! I use descent mk3 with it.

    One small suggestion from a scuba diver, could we have no-fly time and surface interval data fields?

  • 2 months ago

    Hi.

    I am trying EASY Round face on Instinct 2X.  Looks great, but there are some issues:

    1. Pressure and Trend does not work as I expect.  In Garmin faces there is a bending arrow to display a trend.  Here I see something like a balloon (honestly, I do not understand meaning of that icon).  Same as for a Pressure Ambient widget.

    2. Bluetooth icon is a complete mess when there is no connection.  I guess the idea was to cross icon?  IMHO it is better not display it all.

    3. I turned off Always display Seconds.  Seconds appear after wrist gesture as expected and disappear after some time.  However if seconds are still on the screen and I do wrist gesture again then they disappear for a short amount of time (about 1s).  From one side it is a convenient behavior, because I can check if wrist gesture was registered when I am trying to do double wrist gesture.  However it is inconsistent with Garmin faces behavior — they do not have that blink after gesture.

  • 2 months ago in reply to 9503362
    9503362 said:
    One small suggestion from a scuba diver, could we have no-fly time and surface interval data fields?

    Garmin doesn't provide any scuba data to 3rd party apps. Thanks

  • 2 months ago in reply to 7154015
    7154015 said:
    1. Pressure and Trend does not work as I expect.  In Garmin faces there is a bending arrow to display a trend.  Here I see something like a balloon (honestly, I do not understand meaning of that icon).  Same as for a Pressure Ambient widget.

    It is manometer and it means that there is no trend - the pressure is stable.

    7154015 said:
    2. Bluetooth icon is a complete mess when there is no connection.  I guess the idea was to cross icon?  IMHO it is better not display it all.

    I'm aware of the issue, but thanks for reporting it. I'll try to fix it when I have time. It is an issue only for Instinct watches and only when the phone is not connected.

    7154015 said:
    3. I turned off Always display Seconds.  Seconds appear after wrist gesture as expected and disappear after some time.  However if seconds are still on the screen and I do wrist gesture again then they disappear for a short amount of time (about 1s).  From one side it is a convenient behavior, because I can check if wrist gesture was registered when I am trying to do double wrist gesture.  However it is inconsistent with Garmin faces behavior — they do not have that blink after gesture.

    The seconds disappear because you put your watch in sleep mode by turning your wrist away. That is an expected behavior. On other (non Instinct) watches you would see the whole screen deem. 

  • 2 months ago in reply to MobileDriveway

    Hi. I have been using the Glance watch face on my Garmin Venu and it looks great. I just got hold of a Fenix 5 Plus and everything looks great except the time in the middle which looks a bit squashed. Help! Is it the font or something else? Thanks for your help :)

  • 2 months ago in reply to 3350874
    3350874 said:
    Hi. I have been using the Glance watch face on my Garmin Venu and it looks great. I just got hold of a Fenix 5 Plus and everything looks great except the time in the middle which looks a bit squashed. Help! Is it the font or something else? Thanks for your help :)

    GLANCE uses stock fonts, which are different on each watch model. You can switch to Glance Pro - it has custom fonts that look much better.