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Casting Float to Number does not yield Number

qlyoung
- Acknowledged on Oct 2, 2025
- 11 Comments
This code: var myFloat = 5.0; var myNumber = myFloat as Number; var mod = myNumber % 1; Compiles without warnings, but crashes at runtime with: Error: Unhandled Exception Exception: UnexpectedTypeException: Expected Number/Long, given Number/Float...
- Oct 2, 2025 1:07 AM
CIQ docs do not make it clear some new devices (e.g. Vivoactive 6) do not support onMenu(), and do require the use of View.setActionMenuIndicator(), in order to implement equivalent functionality (e.g. context-sensitive menu)

flowstate
- Acknowledged on Oct 2, 2025
- 2 Comments
Newer touch-first devices - Vivoactive 6, Venu 4 and Venu X1 - no longer have a dedicated menu button/touchscreen shortcut which triggers the onMenu behavior. In the past, *every* CIQ watch supported onMenu, whether by button short/long-press or a long...
- Oct 1, 2025 11:49 PM
CIQ device reference shows supported buttons for each device, but not touchscreen behaviors

flowstate
- Acknowledged on Oct 2, 2025
- 0 Comments
Overview https://developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/device-reference/ This is especially an issue in the context of the new touch-first devices (Vivoactive 6, Venu X1, Venu 4) which do not support onMenu at all. If I want to know which devices *do...
- Oct 1, 2025 11:37 PM
bug: datafield post-install flow

flocsy🤠
- Acknowledged on Oct 1, 2025
- 1 Comment
Brandon.ConnectIQ FYI I posted my "experience" of the new datafield post-install flow: https://forums.garmin.com/sports-fitness/running-multisport/f/forerunner-965/423182/bugs-in-datafield-post-install-flow fr965, FW: 25.04, CIQ 5.2.0, Connect IQ android...
- Sep 30, 2025 8:36 AM
bug / feature-request: ERA Viewer removes reports of "old" internal version when auto-migrated

flocsy🤠
- Acknowledged on Sep 30, 2025
- 0 Comments
1. developer uploads IQ file with version "1.0" (becomes internal version 1) 2. ERA Viewer displays 100 errors of app version "1.0" 2. Garmin auto migrates to internal version 2 (but correctly it's still called 1.0 for the users, developer!) 3....
- Sep 29, 2025 10:37 AM
SDK 8.3 Simulator App Crash with SYSTEM ERROR @ all widgets

TheMagician
- Acknowledged on Sep 28, 2025
- 4 Comments
The current SDK Simulator can't be used for all my widgets (watch faces are fine). When I start the simulator workflow the build is successful, the simulator app is started but then the widgets crash. It also crashes with any device that is selected...
- Sep 27, 2025 8:15 PM
Instinct Crossover AMOLED no transparent png supported

FSeifert
- Acknowledged on Sep 27, 2025
- 1 Comment
Is it correct, that the Instinct Crossover AMOLED have no support for transparences with PNG files. With an Instinct 3 AMOLED all transparent png's working. I can olny check this in simulator.
- Sep 26, 2025 7:43 PM
GlanceView functionality is broken with Connect IQ SDK 8.3, at least on macOS/simulator

Grigorii Entin
- Acknowledged on Sep 26, 2025
- 7 Comments
Hi, Right after upgrading SDK, encountered this problem. Pinpointed it to just standard sample modified to employ Glance. The app crashes right away e.g. with Fenix 7 simulator - putting Simulator into some kind of "keyboard entry mode" (as long as...
- Sep 25, 2025 10:37 PM
API Level 5.2 not supported by latest SDK (8.2.3)

InigoTolosa
- Acknowledged on Sep 26, 2025
- 2 Comments
The SDK manager has just updated a lot of devices to API Level 5.2, but there's no update for the SDK that still remains at v 8.2.3 that doesn't support that API level. So we can't build for devices at that level. Shouldn't be the SDK updated before...
- Sep 25, 2025 7:04 PM
MapView does not work on an egde 1040 like in the simulator

herculutz
- Acknowledged on Sep 25, 2025
- 0 Comments
The Environment: Windows 11 Connect IQ SDK version: 8.2.3 VS Code Extension version : 1.1.2 VS Code version: 1.105.1 A detailed description of the issue MapView does not work on an egde 1040 like in the simulator On the real edge...
- Sep 24, 2025 9:52 AM