Golf Scorecard: 1st version submitted.

Former Member
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I have just submitted my very first release of a simple Golf scorecard app.

(I'd like to post a screenshot here but the image upload widget doesn't work for me)

A simple Golf app that counts your strokes per hole and, if manually started, records the distance, duration and track of your round.
Instructions:

(1) The App will crash on the very first instance. Don't worry. Retry. Just as in Golf: your next swing will be just fine!

(2) The main screen shows the current hole, the strokes on this hole, and, in smaller print, the total score (no stableford, no Hcp, no nothing, only plain strokes) and the time.

(3) To add a stroke press the up button. To delete a stroke press the down button.

(4) Press the "Start/Enter" button to show your score card: the "out" 9 holes in the first row, the "in" holes in the second row. The current hole is marked by a "V". Please note that for convenience the app advances one hole when you invoke the scorecard. You can just click "Start/Enter" a second time to return to the stroke keeping main screen for the next hole. If you want to stay in the current hole or navigate to any other hole, use the up and down buttons. Use "Start/Enter" when done.

Remember: clicking "Start/Enter" twice advances one hole and returns to the main screen. Convenient, isn't it?

(5) If you want to record your activity and create a FIT file that will be uploaded automatically to your Garmin Connect Account, press the "Menu" button (that is the "up" button, but pressed for a while). Use the up/down buttons to navigate the menu. Select "Start Round". CAUTION: this will reset the current scorecard! So if you want to record your round, activate recording before you start your round. Once done, invoke the menu again and select "End round". This will stop recording and finalize the FIT file for upload. You

There are currently no confirmation dialogs such as "are you sure you want to do this?". So be prepared to take the responsibility of any button you press.

The App runs on a fenx 3 only. I bet there will be bugs. Please remember: this is the very first release! Hcp 54 in Golf language.
  • (1) The App will crash on the very first instance.


    Not good. Perhaps you should capture some debug information about the crash a debug it. You can create Garmin/Apps/Logs/CIQ_LOG.txt on the device and it will contain information about the call stack after a ConnectIQ application crashes.

    Also, I think you wanted to post this in the Showcase forum area.

    Travis
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    Also, I think you wanted to post this in the Showcase forum area.

    Travis


    Yes. Can you move it over?
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    It is approved and in the appstore now:

    https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/dbd99b10-17ea-4bbb-ab81-5828eba79169.

    Let me know what you think.
  • It is approved and in the appstore now:

    https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/apps/dbd99b10-17ea-4bbb-ab81-5828eba79169.

    Let me know what you think.


    Hi, for me there's no bug and the app is simple to use.
    Is it possible to see duration and distance on the screen ?
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    Hi, for me there's no bug and the app is simple to use.
    Is it possible to see duration and distance on the screen ?


    You have to start a recording manualy, using the menu. Press and hold the up/menu button. Select "Start round". Warning: all strokes will be reset. You start at hole 1 with no strokes. Once you started a round recording, you should see a red dot at the 3'clock position, and the distance and duration are shown alternating between the time (white, bottom of the screen) and the round's total strokes. See the screenshot in the app store for comparison.

    If you don't start a recording, distance and duration are not obtained, recorded, saved or displayed.

    You should also end the recording manually once you completed you round.

    Please let me know your experiences with it!
  • That's ok with distance and duration :)

    Yesterday, i try "in live", the app crash after 3 hours of my round ..... and i loose my scorecard at 15 hole ;) ........
    I try again this morning with a new round ......
  • The app crash yesterday and today after 3h05'12 and 3H05'14 !!!!!!!
    And the 2 days after 8.05 kms !!!!!!!!
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    Wow. First, let me say sorry for those crashes and thank you for the feedback.

    I have no idea what's going on there, and it seems to be difficult to find out because one would have to test each attempt for more than 3 hours.

    I will look into it. Maybe there is an overflow error, or a memory leak.

    Is anybody else having similar problems in their apps? Any ideas or hints?
  • Former Member
    Former Member over 10 years ago
    OK, a short update:

    1) I have been improving the App when the bug report (see above) came in. Then I made a long test run of the new version with the simulator (over night) and on my watch, also over night, for 557 minutes and more than 7 km. Both tests were completed without a crash. That means that,with the current version, I cannot reproduce the reported crash. I did not try to fix it, nor did I intentionally change anything that could be related to the crash. So it might still happen on other people's devices, or I have coincidentally fixed the problem. I would be glad to hear more user reports.

    2) I uploaded a new version (1.1).

    Main changes:

    (a) Starting a new round (recording) does no longer reset the scorecard. If you want to start with an empty scorecard, use the corresponding menu item and reset it manually. This behaviour is different from the first version and has the advantage that, even when the App crashes, the scorecard data will be saved and reloaded.

    (b) If you enter subsequent strokes on the same hole, the app measures the distance between the two shots. It does not simply use the distance that you may have walked between the two positions, but calculates the distance a golf ball would have flown.
    In order to free up space for this new, additional information, I moved the round's recorded duration and distance to the scorecard screen, while the distance of the last shot is shown on the main screen. The shot distance is not measured when you change hole, or subtract or add multiple shots (wouldn't make any sense).

    Please let me know what you think.
  • Some new ideas (or requests) for this great apps:

    1. In recording mode, when we start a new hole, is it possible to mark a new lap in the track? That will be very useful because after uploading the Activity to Garmin Connect and see the track on the map, we can see separately 18 laps (correspond to 18 holes).

    2. Can you store the scores into the FIT file, so that we can view later in Garmin Connect, may be in the "Comment" field?

    3. Same as 2. above but the strokes' number and their distance (provided that user recorded properly right after each new stroke).