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3 months ago

Watch faces downloaded show a blank screen when starting to scroll up or down

When I start to scroll up or down from the watch face. To access the glance widgets. If I have a pre installed watch face selected. It will show the face image as I start scrolling, but with any installed faces (I've tried a few different ones from different developers including Garmin) when I start scrolling the watch face image disappears and shows a blank screen instead, making the whole scrolling feel very unnatural. 

Not a huge deal. Just cosmetic I guess. But I wish it would be fixed

JoeyRub
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  • 3 months ago

    > Not a huge deal. Just cosmetic I guess. 

    Imagine if every screen on the watch scrolled like this? Instead of a smooth transition between one page and another that tracks your finger precisely, the old page would just be abruptly replaced with the next page. That would be a terrible UX. You wouldn't really have the impression that the your finger is directly moving the content, like you do with 99% of touchscreens.

    There was a super old Garmin touchscreen watch (released 2015) which worked just like that. It was definitely noticeable, and there's obviously a reason Garmin has implemented smooth scrolling for later watches.

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  • 3 months ago

    > Not a huge deal. Just cosmetic I guess. 

    Imagine if every screen on the watch scrolled like this? Instead of a smooth transition between one page and another that tracks your finger precisely, the old page would just be abruptly replaced with the next page. That would be a terrible UX. You wouldn't really have the impression that the your finger is directly moving the content, like you do with 99% of touchscreens.

    There was a super old Garmin touchscreen watch (released 2015) which worked just like that. It was definitely noticeable, and there's obviously a reason Garmin has implemented smooth scrolling for later watches.

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