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Gear Watchface Designer - Questions

I have been using Gear Watch Face designer for sometime now and have the following questions:
How to display weather info on the watch face you are creating?
S-Health > Steps Speed as action button screen does nothing, just shows some info on how to use steps speed. Does it work only when you have an ongoing exercise program like running or walking chosen?

Hey there! Have a bunch of faces on the market now (Infinity Watchfaces)... Weather support isn't available yet, but Samsung said they would add it.
Steps Speed should calculate how fast you are walking or running I believe. Haven't used that one yet, mainly step count.

XP, anyone?
Is anyone using this program on Win XP? I realize that's ancient, but that's where my copy of Photoshop resides, and it's the machine that's really the best place for me to do any design work.

Issues getting watch face certified since the last update
Since the most recent update all of my watch faces are being rejected for "Unable to find the app due to the minimum supported OS version of Gear application."
I believe they are saying that it should be set for Gear S2 only but I cannot find a setting for that in Gear Watch Designer. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.

Editing or requesting changes to stock watch faces?

Hello worldxda!
I've finally received my Frontier and I've been playing around with it for a few days. I'm useless with analogue watch faces, and I need two different time zones displayed at the same time due to work. The Gear Dashboard is almost perfect with world time, battery, and heartrate around the main clock. However, I'm sorely lacking a Date option in place of my current Steps counter! Is this something I could somehow achieve myself through GWD (is there a .gwd file for it?), or is there a way I could get in touch with the watch face creator to request such an added feature? Has anyone come across a similar watch face that offers these things?

This was my favorite as well and i also missed the date, so i created my own watch face (picture attached)
Called G-Dashboard in Galaxy Apps store (hope its available in your country)

Gear S3 as a sports tracker?! Is it really possible?!

Hi there
Tell me please if you use your gear as a sports/trening tracker?
Why do I ask? Recently I have been using gear s3 along with tomtom spark and I am really dissapointed with gear results
Calories burn are terribly low, distance is incorrect, heart rate sometimes stucks and shows the same data for all training, I can't edit trainings (eg I can't change 'other training' into for example 'martial arts") etc
Is gear sport the same? Do you have any comparision?
Perhaps tizen2 was better in this area?
Thanks for any suggestions/ideas etc

Official Samsung says the accuracy is 80% but in reality we all know is lower.
For activity I would recommend a an activity tracker dedicated instead of a smartwatch.

Try using the UA fitness apps. I started using UA Record again (I stopped because it wouldn't sync correctly, does now), and it seems way more accurate with my workouts. Honestly, outside of the UI and look of the watch, this thing isn't great. If you want a good fitness tracker, try Garmin, I've heard very good things,. Also, give Android Wear a shot too if you want to keep the style of a smartwatch. I had a Huawei watch 2 classic, and Google Fit was awesome for tracking, at least strength training (all I tried). I went back to Samsung because I missed the UI and the watch 2 battery life suuuccckkkeeeddd.

[WEAR APP 6.0+] 3C Battery Watch

3C Battery Watch, available on Play Store only, the battery monitoring tool for Wear OS smartwatches.
★ Display %, mA, mV, temperature and remaining time in one screen.
★ Tap to display historical data for each.
★ Mobile app can connect to wear app to show full historical data.

Beta 0.3
In this beta, I've made both the wear and mobile app.
Both must have the same package name to be able to communicate with each other. So the mobile app cannot be the toolbox nor battery manager. At least not directly.
Here are the possibilities:
- One independent wear app for each app accessing it: toolbox or battery manager.
- Existing wear app + plugin mobile app, toolbox or battery manager communicating with plugin to access wear app (itself going through wear os app).
The mobile app currently shows the main watch screen, the estimate graph, and full history using a graphic and list view.
I'm thinking of putting estimates summary (run-time, screen-on/standby/charge) and calibration summary (capacity) into the main screen, with taps to open new screens for graphics, history, detailed estimates and detailed calibration, similarly to battery manager.
It's in beta, so any feedback is welcome.

I've downloaded and paid for the full version of the all in one toolbox you've created. Love it!
Would you know of anyway to get this working with my galaxy frontier 3 watch and note 20 ultra 5g? Would love to test this out on my Samsung devices.

demandarin said:
I've downloaded and paid for the full version of the all in one toolbox you've created. Love it!
Would you know of anyway to get this working with my galaxy frontier 3 watch and note 20 ultra 5g? Would love to test this out on my Samsung devices.
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The frontier 3 is tizen-based if I'm correct, so it won't work on it. I'll be looking at Tizen development to see if I can port the app to that OS.

3c said:
The frontier 3 is tizen-based if I'm correct, so it won't work on it. I'll be looking at Tizen development to see if I can port the app to that OS.
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You are correct... id likely assume me along with many others have the galaxy watch series vs. Google wear OS watches.. once you are ready, I'd more than be welcome to testing tizen based version.. as I feel the Samsung based watches goes more in depth with watches vs. Wear OS.

demandarin said:
You are correct... id likely assume me along with many others have the galaxy watch series vs. Google wear OS watches.. once you are ready, I'd more than be welcome to testing tizen based version.. as I feel the Samsung based watches goes more in depth with watches vs. Wear OS.
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I have the mobvoi Ticwatch Pro 2020 and it delivers everything I need. I'm not into sports so I disabled all mobvoi specialized apps and I'm getting 3 days and half on full charge, 2 days and half before. It has google pay, talks and is perfect for my need. I'm looking into getting the ticwatch Pro 3 which has longer battery life and is faster. The pro 3 is impressive with all sports feature one can wish. My wife had the Galaxy Active 2 but sold it for a Mikael Corss watch running Wear OS, she's very happy with it. No sports addict either, so health features are of no interest to us.
On the developement side, it's way easier to develop for Wear OS than tizen where one will have to code the watch app in C/C++ and the Android app in Java. I've setup the dev environment which requires both Eclipse IDE and Android Studio IDE to be installed.
Anyway, smart watches have a long road ahead to become way better.

Checklist when choosing a watch face

Hello community,
When shopping for watch faces, it is possible that you get attracted to certain designs and buy them, only to realize later that the watch face is missing one or more things that you would like to have. Then it becomes a question of whether to keep the watch face or get a refund.
Watch faces come with the following types of customizations:
1. Complications: which display information directly from another app, e.g. weather, date, etc. - VERY USEFUL
2. App Shortcuts: which are simply shortcuts to apps on your watch - NOT very useful.
A good watch face will support more number of custom Complications. Some of the elements in a watch face are fixed, and cannot be customized. Most Developers deliberately make some of the information on the watch faces non-customizable (not sure why, so my guess is to sell more watch faces). So look specifically for what can be customized. Typically, 4 or more custom complications would make for a great watch face.
Personally, I prefer watch faces that show basic things prominently such as time, date and weather. There are many watch faces whose designs may look good, but not as functional as one would like it to be. The designs often obscure the information, making them difficult to read at a glance. It is a smart watch, and therefore, should present info in as easy to read manner, as possible.
So here is a handy checklist that can be used to see what all features are available in a watch face:
TIME & DATE: These are obvious, so I won't include them in the list (and these don't make a watch 'smart'):
01. DAY of the week
02. Weather
03. Weather, with location name: very few watch faces support this.
04. Moon Phase: very few watch faces support this.
05. Phone Battery*
06. Watch Battery: present in most watch faces.
07. Calendar, preferably with the ability to display 'Agenda': very few watch faces support this.
08. World Clock
09. Weather related info like 'Feels like Temperature', Sunrise and Sunset, UV index, etc: most watch faces support these.
10. Chance of Rain: very few watch faces support this.
11. UTC time**
12. Day of the year**
13. Week of the year**
14. Step Counter***
15. Distance Covered***
16. Calories burnt***
17. Heart Rate (bpm)****
18. Blood Pressure (BP)
19. Google Fit (or other similar apps/ service like Samsung Health) integration: only some watch faces support this.
* if not supported natively, you can enable this on most watch faces by installing this app.
** if not supported natively, you can enable this on most watch faces by installing this app
*** if not supported natively, you can enable this on most watch faces by installing this app.
**** if not supported natively, you can enable this on most watch faces by installing this app.
Do take note of the AOD mode when selecting a watch face. This is very important. Some watch faces only offer a 'DIM' mode for AOD. This is bad as this will not only drain more battery, but will also cause screen burn-in. The AOD mode must ideally offer a 'Time only' option, and preferably shifting pixels too!
There are two types of watch faces I have come across so far:
1. One that allows use of complications available with WearOS, as well as 3rd party apps.
2. One that relies on its own set of complications, and you need to install a companion app on the phone: This severely limits the amount of information you can have.
Watch faces in the 1st category are usually preferred due to their versatility and number of complications supported.
SUMMARY
What I look for before buying a watch face:
1. Prominent Time, Date & Day (text should be big enough)
2. 4 or more custom complications (excluding the above)
3. Minimal AOD (such as Time-only option to help avoid screen burn-in and save battery)
Hope this helps.
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