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over 1 year ago

404 for URLs in the SDK doc

Hi.

Every now and then, when I have time, I jump on my macbook, and I say, "let's try something out with the Garmin SDK". I'm pretty much sure, I'd need more velocity to overcome such a problems, but here it is:

Under the background services doc page, in the sentence below, both link point to something not existing anymore: "I’ve created a very basic watch face with a background service on the developer forum and included a .zip"

Extra: guys, I've been a developer since 20+ years. I really want to develop something to my Epix gen 2 watch. But every time I start with something, I hit barrier after barrier. Sure, all can be solved after a while, and all SDKs' doc can contain outdated pages, but guys, if you don't do anything about these issues, garmin will soon be the next nokia. If you don't have new devs, you'll have no new QUALITY apps.

Yesterday I "tried" to wear again my apple watch ultra I got recently, but after a day, I just went back to my epix and today I wanted to start to investigate how can I create a more gentle wake up app, because the default one just wakes up everyone in the room, plus it's like someone kicking me out of the bed. I know, the apple watch has a "haptic" something, but I'm sure by creating a kind of vibe sequence, I can have a more gentle wake up experience with the Garmin too. BUT, reading the doc, I just got this frustration again.

I mean, I have a family. This is my hobby time. Why would I invest my hobby time into something that points to the void for long term? This is not the first complaint I read here and I just simply don't get it. Not the Monkey C is the issue, devs will learn it. But the development experience is like 20 years ago for android. This ecosystem needs new devs, Youtube tutorials, examples, a lot and that would push the whole thing to a next level. But I feel like Garmin does not really care about this problem. I've been leading teams and projects since 10 years now and I know, if developers don't like the code environment, they'll just quit.

Am I really the only one feeling this? Sorry for the long mumbling, but I just feel I again spent my spare time in the wrong way.

mudlee
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  • over 1 year ago

    I've created a ticket to address the documentation issue. is probably correct that this got lost in the shuffle during our forum platform change a few years back.

    Your comments about the documentation and the community are completely understandable. I'll pass along your feedback—I'd like to see a lot of updates to the documentation myself. :) I realize you're talking about more than just the docs, but that is definitely low-hanging fruit.

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  • over 1 year ago

    I've created a ticket to address the documentation issue. is probably correct that this got lost in the shuffle during our forum platform change a few years back.

    Your comments about the documentation and the community are completely understandable. I'll pass along your feedback—I'd like to see a lot of updates to the documentation myself. :) I realize you're talking about more than just the docs, but that is definitely low-hanging fruit.

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