Ten free watch faces updated - the Spanish date was quietly broken

6358344 15 days ago

I maintain a set of free watch faces that show one metric as a seven-day bar chart. A user wearing one of them spotted something I had never noticed on the simulator, and checking it turned up two separate bugs. Posting both in case anyone else has the same problem sitting in their manifest.

1. Tuesday and Wednesday were the same letter

In Spanish the days are D L M X J V S - X for miercoles, precisely so it does not collide with martes. Seven of my faces shipped DLMMJVS, so the bottom row read M J V S D L M and two days were indistinguishable. Three other faces of mine already had it right, which is how it survived that long: I had checked one and assumed the rest.

2. The worse one: three faces promised Spanish and shipped none

Three of them declared this in the manifest:

spa

with no resources-spa folder anywhere in the project. It compiles, it validates, it publishes, and the store advertises Spanish support. A Spanish user just saw SUN, APR 8 on their wrist and no error anywhere.

If you have a multi-language app, it is worth checking that every language you declare actually has a resource folder behind it. Nothing in the toolchain told me otherwise.

All ten are updated in the store now. They are free, no ads, no permissions requested:

Thanks to the user who told me. Wearing the thing beats testing it.