Watchface: Minalog

Hi everybody,

my watch face Minalog is a highly configurable and battery saving watch face with a clean and minimal design.

Link to the Garmin Connect IQ Store > watch face > Minalog

The features and changes are partly user idea driven and each request is highly welcome!
Let me know if you want new features or additional information. I want to learn more about coding apps so your ideas will help you and me! ;-)

Information to be displayed

Date
Battery
Calories
Steps
Phone connection indicator
Current heart rate (devices with wrist sensor only)
Activity minutes (SDK 2.1.0 or higher only)
Sunrise and Sunset where sunset will be shown from 8am to 7pm and then sunrise for the next day

In-app settings

Set title
Show information at 5 different positions (top, right, bottom 1, bottom 2, left)
Configure the background of the watch face (black or white)
Configure the watch face layout (indicator at 12, 3, 6 and 9, only 12 with bluetooth indication, or no indicators)
Configure the thickness hands (too thin, thin, medium, thick)
Configure the size of the text (tiny, small, medium, large)
Configure the color of the hands (white, lite gray, dark gray, red, dark red, orange, yellow, green, dark green, blue, dark blue, purple, pink)
Configure the date format (full, only day and suffix, only month and day, only day, month abbreviation and day)
Configure activity minutes (weekly or daily)

Zyxid over 8 years ago

Changelog

3.1.1
-Sunrise and Sunset (user request)
3.0
- Position of information is configurable now. However one information can only be shown at one position (user request)

- Devices using SDK 2.1.0 or higher (F5, VVAHR, …) can now show activity minutes (weekly or daily)

- Code refactoring

2.11

- New date option available: month abbreviation and day (user request)

2.10.1

- If hands color set to white and background color changed to white hands will switch to black accordingly

2.10

- Watch face background can be black or white (user request)

- Refactored color management

2.9

- Watch face layout is now configurable (user request)

- Code refactoring

2.8

- Text size configuration now also change the text size of the heart rate information (user request)

- Alignment fixed for larger text (battery and date)

2.7.2 - 2.7.3

- Settings bug fixes (simulator continues to be flawless ...)

- Code refactoring

2.7.1

- Bug fixed, where text size not changing correctly.

2.7

- Configure text size (user request)

2.6.2

- Fixed settings crash for devices without wrist-based heart rate sensor

2.6.1

- Fenix 5, Fenix 5X and Fenix 5S device support

2.6

- Show day of the week (user request)

- Moved hr right under the free text field (user hint)

- Fixed the rare date bug while display day only

2.5

- Color of the hands is configurable now

2.4.1

- Reset thickness for the rest of the layout

2.4

- Thickness of the hands is configurable now (user request)

2.3.3

- Removed debug activation of hr

2.3.2

- Reworked all text positions - all information are positioned in dependence of the given view port and active status

2.3.1

- Fixed position of steps for all devices (thanks for the user feedback!)

2.3

- Much better battery handling (battery saving!)

2.2.1

- Display bluetooth phone connection fixed

2.2

- Show current heart rate (user request)

- Display bluetooth phone connection

2.1

- Fixed date suffix (thanks for the user feedback via mail!)

- The date has now several options to be displayed

2.0.1

- Fixed date position for all devices

2.0

- Settings added (user request)

- Code cleaning

1.1.2

- Completely removed the layout from source code

1.1.1

- Shortened the hands

1.1

- Added all possible devices. However only tested on Fenix 3 Hr

1.0

- Initial Version without settings