Ticket Created
over 3 years ago

WERETECH-12507

Simulator Bug in latest SDK 4.1.2

I installed SDK 4.1.2, and there seems to be a couple bugs in the Simulator. They both related to App settings:

  • When you open the app settings (I ran a watch face app in simulator), and click Save, the Save button stays grayed out. You have to close the settins window and re-open it to be able to save again.
  • Some Boolean properties do not get saved. Specifically, if a property was TRUE by default, disabling it doesn't change it. App still sees TRUE, and when you re-open settings, the property is indeed TRUE again. This might not apply to ALL properties, but I definetly have a few that do that. If I change the default to FALSE, it works as expected.

, would you plese submit a bug?

Thanks 

MobileDriveway
  • over 3 years ago

    solution is simple - change language and save will activate :)

  • over 3 years ago
    I'm going to move this over to our bug reports and we'll get these checked. I believe the first issue is "by design" but definitely could be improved (or fixed if not by design). We did have a small tweak that was made to make the Save button grey when editing growable lists since there's a second save button intended to save new growable list items. In that case, it was unclear which 'Save' could be used, and using the main save button while editing a list item would cause an error. I suspect that this fix may be related to the behavior you're currently seeing. The second is the known issue that linked to and the fix is currently in QA testing. Since it's a server-side fix, a new SDK release will not be required for you to get the fix--it should just start working properly once the fix is deployed. I am in complete agreement with you about the save button/process for settings in the mobile app. I am fairly confident I've filed a ticket about this before, but if I can't find an existing one, I'll create a new ticket to have this improved. It's a poor user experience.
  • over 3 years ago
    for the 1st one: I agree with you this sounds like a bug in sim, though it (unfortunately) kind of works similar to Garmin Connect Mobile app, where save button also closes the settings page. Probably there was a bug they couldn't solve and decided to do this "workaround". Maybe they have some similar issues in the sim as well and they just forgot to add the "close window". Though if Garmin reads this, then it would really be better if the settings window could be kept open and we could change the settings, then hit save, see the changes in the watch, then change again, etc... This is true both in sim and GCM app.