Acknowledged
1 month ago
CIQQA-3123

Vivoactive 6 Simulator problems

The Vivoactive 6 simulator does not seem to respond to a Menu command, and only responds to the buttons in a very tiny area along the edge of the button where it meets the body of the watch in the simulator. 

The Vivoactive 5 simulator operates as expected so it looks to me like this is a set of simulator bugs.

Jeff
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  • 1 month ago

    1. RTFM: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/b/news-announcements/posts/vivoactive-6-now-available-in-the-connect-iq-sdk-manager

    But that page doesn't say that onMenu was removed. It doesn't mention onMenu at all.

    It just says the action menu indicator has moved for VA6 (compared to VA5), and (for VA6) Connect IQ has explicit support for displaying/hiding the indicator and responding to a left swipe of the indicator.

    Yes, perhaps one could guess from the note that onMenu support was removed but that would be a stretch. In fact, I don't think anybody guessed that.

    Those of us who's already discussed this issue only noticed it when they actually tried in the sim and/or looked at device files, not solely because of that announcement. And once we looked into this, we could see that DCR's review said you no longer open device settings by holding a button, but by opening the activity/app list, scrolling to the Settings item and selecting it. From all of that, we could conclude that onMenu was purposely removed.

    Furthermore, the VA6 manual was unavailable at the time of announcement, so it wouldn't be possible to literally read the manual and see that there's no longer a universal button shortcut to open a menu.

    So actually, I think it's unfair to say they should've "RTFM" (in reference to that announcement), when the announcement doesn't really address onMenu at all.
    Immediately after that announcement was made, literally 0 people said "whoa so you mean onMenu was removed???"

    I think Garmin should've made it clear that onMenu was removed, and maybe even explained their rationale for why it was removed, instead of devs having to discover this on their own and speculate about why it happened.

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  • 1 month ago

    1. RTFM: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/b/news-announcements/posts/vivoactive-6-now-available-in-the-connect-iq-sdk-manager

    But that page doesn't say that onMenu was removed. It doesn't mention onMenu at all.

    It just says the action menu indicator has moved for VA6 (compared to VA5), and (for VA6) Connect IQ has explicit support for displaying/hiding the indicator and responding to a left swipe of the indicator.

    Yes, perhaps one could guess from the note that onMenu support was removed but that would be a stretch. In fact, I don't think anybody guessed that.

    Those of us who's already discussed this issue only noticed it when they actually tried in the sim and/or looked at device files, not solely because of that announcement. And once we looked into this, we could see that DCR's review said you no longer open device settings by holding a button, but by opening the activity/app list, scrolling to the Settings item and selecting it. From all of that, we could conclude that onMenu was purposely removed.

    Furthermore, the VA6 manual was unavailable at the time of announcement, so it wouldn't be possible to literally read the manual and see that there's no longer a universal button shortcut to open a menu.

    So actually, I think it's unfair to say they should've "RTFM" (in reference to that announcement), when the announcement doesn't really address onMenu at all.
    Immediately after that announcement was made, literally 0 people said "whoa so you mean onMenu was removed???"

    I think Garmin should've made it clear that onMenu was removed, and maybe even explained their rationale for why it was removed, instead of devs having to discover this on their own and speculate about why it happened.

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