Watchface: VSWF (Very Simple Watch Face)

Former Member over 8 years ago

Hi!

Inspired/Based by Petr Koula's Watchface with custom font. Thank you Petr! you made me to make this watch face and it is my first one :cool:

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In normal mode without all icons:
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In a nutshell: Plain and simple watch face that includes all necessary information in small package

Main features:

- Good performance

- BIG distorted font (hour and minute)

- User settings disable/enable: Icons (alarm, bluetooth, do not disturb, notifications), disable/enable steps, disable/enable Date, disable/enable Battery

- User can select Font colours and Background colours via settings (Connect app or express)

- Seconds view when exit sleep mode or viewing watch

- Day & Date

- Steps count for today with movebar

- Info about bluetooth connection status, alarm status and notifications

- Battery bar with percentage value

Will be available on connect IQ store as soon as approved.

Pls. give your comments what to improve or any development ideas. Thank you!

If you like it and use it, please consider making a PayPal donation to support my Connect IQ development:https://www.paypal.me/janwinberg

AVAILABLE NOW:https://apps.garmin.com/fi-FI/apps/d0cce3f9-9030-4f79-813f-3ddefc5031c8;jsessionid=B862E9E19068FAF2E762EA4CADCAEAD2

kompressor over 8 years ago

Very nice watch face!!! Would it be possible to have the option to remove the "calorie bar"? And to be able to have "colon" between hour / minutes). Still date and% of the largest battery? And now more smoothness between dials? And change the font type?

Former Member over 8 years ago

Italiamoat

@Jan_72 you have done well the font on the 5x is larger now and works well. As does the colour change and the turning off the seconds. I will answer some of your questions:

Stick with v.Simple Watch Face (VSWF) because that's what it is and what we want.
The items you have a fine I would only add HR as an option perhaps.
Likin the bigger font. Date and step count a bit larger would be good
I think your locations are good but see my comment below about the time

I have only one suggestion now and that is the location of the time. At the moment it sits in the top right corner, so to speak. I am thinking it is there to leave space for the seconds and when the time has 4 numbers. Would be good if you could centre it in the available space both horizontally and vertically (using the seconds space if they are turned off).

Glad to hear you are quite happy! I will check location/alignment of time. It should be "dead center" as I am locating it in the middle by dividing width by 2.

Very nice watch face!!! Would it be possible to have the option to remove the "calorie bar"? And to be able to have "colon" between hour / minutes). Still date and% of the largest battery? And now more smoothness between dials? And change the font type?

Thanks for feedback, few clarifications are needed:

1. By "calorie bar" do you mean steps bar? the bar in the middle in low portion of watch face? I can make that user selectable option to show/hide. Will try to work it in next release

2. Colon will make time string (hour+minutes) wider, thus font would need to be smaller. That is contradicting original BIG design. It could be made as user setting, but then we need many fonts for different supported watch sizes and some code that will affect performance a bit.

3. What do you mean by: Still date and% of the largest battery?

4. What do you mean by: And now more smoothness between dials? Less space between dials?

derek87 over 8 years ago

@Jan: i think brookes was referring to centering the time vertically since there is more space below the HHMM than above it because of the space left for the seconds.

Former Member over 8 years ago

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Glad to hear you are quite happy! I will check location/alignment of time. It should be "dead center" as I am locating it in the middle by dividing width by 2.

I checked again with simulator for 5x and time is located horizontally dead center. @brookes2622: Can you take picture of your watch face?

and, I just implemented HR and it is included in settings as well so you can disable/enable it if you wish. I need to still do some testing before release.

Former Member over 8 years ago

@Jan: i think brookes was referring to centering the time vertically since there is more space below the HHMM than above it because of the space left for the seconds.

Ok, that makes sense. I tried to make them centered vertically, brookes can check from next build (1.45) whether it is ok now.

Former Member over 8 years ago

Version 1.46 is released:
HR added above steps bar. It can be enabled/disabled via settings in Garmin connect or express app.
Adjusted time font vertically to center for big screen versions 240px * 240px e.g. fenix 5X (requested by brookes2622)
**Pls. note that HR is disabled by default and needs to be enabled via settings. HR reading will take some time to stabilise!**

Former Member over 8 years ago

Version 1.47 released:

- HR sensor check added, HR will not be shown on models that are not supporting it
- Font placement tweaks
- New feature: User can select background colour via settings

brookes2622 over 8 years ago

Looks good. Great job.

Centering is much better, heart rate works a treat.

It's my fulltime watchface at the moment. Voting with my feet :)

derek87 over 8 years ago

@Jan you are doing great work!

couple more things i've noticed:
- with latest release, for some reason, my watch doesn't show notifications to the right of the date like it used to.
- the HR isn't quite centered horizontally, can you shift it a little to the right?

it's been my default watch face the last couple of days. :)

Former Member over 8 years ago

Looks good. Great job.

Centering is much better, heart rate works a treat.

It's my fulltime watchface at the moment. Voting with my feet :)

Glad to hear, enjoy mate!

@Jan you are doing great work!

couple more things i've noticed:
- with latest release, for some reason, my watch doesn't show notifications to the right of the date like it used to.
- the HR isn't quite centered horizontally, can you shift it a little to the right?

it's been my default watch face the last couple of days. :)

Thanks!

1. my mistake, I had made typo in code what comes to showing notifications. Will fix it in next release.
2. HR number must be dead center as it is aligned by width / 2, maybe it is heart icon that is off?

Enjoy!