Link: 1st watch face
Check it out and share feedback. My first mobile app, ever. Code is on GitHub.
Fonts I used: Cabin for time, BarlowCondensed for all other text.
Had a lot of fun making cohesive color palettes with Pebble’s limited colors.
Thanks to the Pebble community that posted their code on GitHub. Got so many ideas from all of you.
Manoj
Added Bluetooth disconnected and location info, overhauled hand-drawn weather widgets, created a tool to test widgets independently before releasing them, improved resiliency & reliability of weather & location updates, improved communication between PKJS and watch face, squashed a number of bugs I introduced along the way, and added a test harness to validate that I hadn’t broken anything new while unbreaking things you’ll reported as broken.
Phew. I knew I would return to coding one day, I just didn’t realize how much I would enjoy it! As Eric put it some time ago, access to limited resources pushes everyone to extract a little more juice from the platform. The limits have only encouraged me to push and see how far I can stretch them. Thanks Pebble team and community for this incredible platform.
Looks interesting. I tried to install it on my Time 2. iOS app says “On watch” but it does not display on the watch. “Start watchface” and “Settings” buttons are both disabled. I´ll try again in some days…
Never mind. Watch restart fixed it…
I like this watchface and use it on my Time 2. My only complaint is that the step count line could do with a tiny bit more space between the icon and the numbers, and the day/date looks cramped on the same line as the temp and weather icon - more space between them could fix that I think!
Otherwise, very readable, even though I have imperfect eyesight, so great job, because many watch faces aren’t!
A question though: What does the ‘progress’ line under the time signify?!
I replied to both Ben and Andy. Here’s a summary: check out v1.3.1 which should have fixes for items requested by both of you. You were right to push me to explore other layout ideas, add back the degree symbol, etc.
if the location doesn’t show correctly and your companion app is running on iOS, it’s a PKJS issue. I’ve tried on two iPhones and iOS is very aggressive with offloading background apps, which severs the PKJS connection and only a Settings refresh seems to sync things back up. Unless you allow Pebble to run in the background and “peek” your location even when the app is closed. I set Pebble to operate in this manner but turned off Precise Location. All was much better once I did that.
I didn’t get a chance to test 1.3.1 on a watch. Mine is in transit from LA thanks to Claudio. I’m 6-hours away in Oakland; the watch will reach me next week, thanks to USPS’s efficient package routing protocols.
Manoj
Excellent!! The revised layout is perfect - though I think the text is slightly smaller, which would be a slight negative for quick readability.