Acknowledged
CIQQA-3059

Bug report: with Connect IQ SDK 8.1.0, widget builds for Instinct 2 like devices are no longer launched in glance mode in Simulator

It's known that *widget* builds targeting Instinct 2 (Fenix 6?) like devices run in "glance mode" (https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/core-topics/glances/). With Connect IQ SDK 8.1.0 it's no longer the case, at least with my project (https://github.com/grigorye/Handsfree), when running in Simulator. They're launched as a regular app instead. Switching back to SDK to 7.4.3 makes the widget builds for Instinct 2 run in glance mode again.

This seem to affect only Simulator: (widget) builds for devices run as expected in glance mode on real Instinct 2 devices, for both versions of SDK.

Regards,
Grigorii

Grigorii Entin

  • I have the same issue with my App and SDK 8.1.x. 

    I do override getGlanceView(), but the simulator in 8.1.x does not show the glance but goes directly into the full widget. Sim 7.4.3 works just fine.

  • in reply to Grigorii Entin

    I can reproduce it on my end as well. When an Instinct 2 is selected as device build, the app will not start in Glance View with either SDK 8.1.0 nor 8.1.1. With SDK 7.4.3, Glance View starts just fine as you would expect.

  • Yeah so I think the two simulator bugs here are:

    1) In SDK 8.1 but not 7.4.3: instinct2* devices incorrectly launch widgets in normal mode instead of glance mode

    2) In both SDK 8.1 and 7.4.3, the value of Settings > Glance Launch Mode option may be inappropriately persisted when changing the option for a different device (fr945), then switching to a device (e.g. instinct2) which does not support that option. IOW, if I set glance launch mode to normal for fr945, then run a widget for instinct2, glance mode may still be normal, even though instinct2 doesn't support changing glance launch mode, and even though instinct2 should always use glance mode and not normal mode

    I mention 2) because I think that even if 1) is fixed, 2) could still be a problem. (Given that 1) did not exist in 7.4.3, but 2) does exist in 7.4.3)

  • in reply to flowstate

    OK, thanks! Now I can at least test the CIQ 3? glance mode with SDK 8.1.0 and Fenix 6 (yeah, I also encountered the bug with widget running there in app mode (even though Glance Launch Mode said "Glance") and had to toggle the setting back and forth to get it working as expected. That's not ideal but better than nothing.