Bloom — Spring Meadow Watch Face

FEATURES & DETAILS • LIVING SKY ON REAL SUN TIMES: A procedural backdrop that shifts colors dynamically by time of day (pastel dawn, soft midday blue, rose/marigold sunset, and a starry lavender night), anchored to the actual sunrise/sunset for your location and date. • ARCING SUN & MOON: Day/night orbital progression of a bright spring sun (with rotating rays and bloom) and a pale crescent moon, following the true day arc. • PROCEDURAL ANIMATIONS: Drifting clouds, gently rolling green hills, and a grove of blossoming trees that rustle in the breeze over a wildflower meadow. • DRIFTING PETALS: Blossom petals spill out of each tree's canopy and flutter to the meadow floor. • WANDERING CRITTERS: Every so often a single visitor crosses the screen — a rabbit hops, songbirds fly, and a butterfly flits by day; a hedgehog snuffles, a fox slinks, an owl glides, and a bat flutters by night. Never more than one at a time, so the meadow stays calm. Toggle them off if you prefer a still scene. • BEE SECONDS: A black-outlined bumblebee orbits the perimeter as the seconds indicator, drawn on top of everything else so it stays legible. • CONFIGURABLE COMPLICATIONS: Choose what each bottom slot shows — Heart Rate, Body Battery, Device Battery, Steps, or Calories (or turn it Off) — each with a matching icon. Defaults: bottom-left = Heart Rate, bottom-right = Device Battery. A meadow-green steps bar with a live count sits below. • HIGH-CONTRAST OUTLINES: All texts (clock, date, weather, complication values) carry a crisp black outline for readability against the dynamic backdrops. BUILT FOR YOUR DISPLAY Bloom adapts to your panel: • AMOLED: smooth gradient resource fills, specular highlights, and active background illumination. • MIP / Solar: high-contrast flat fills and optimized backdrops tuned for maximum sunlight readability. • ADAPTIVE PERFORMANCE: the scene measures its own render time and self-tunes its detail to your watch, so it keeps animating smoothly without freezing — from flagship to entry-level. Everything is laid out relative to your screen, so it looks right on every supported case size. ALWAYS-ON FRIENDLY On AMOLED, the always-on display switches to a burn-in-safe variant — dim grey time/date, thin outline representations of the complications, steps progress outline, and no visual fills or background animations. All lit pixels are shifted a few pixels each minute. MIP panels always show the full face. SETTINGS • Show Date — toggle the date line. • Show Critters — let the little visitors cross the meadow, or keep the scene still. • Step Goal Override — steps for a full meadow bar; 0 uses the watch's own step goal. • Bottom-Left Complication — Heart Rate, Body Battery, Device Battery, Steps, Calories, or Off. • Bottom-Right Complication — same options (default: Device Battery). PRIVACY Bloom uses only the SensorHistory permission to read Body Battery. It does not collect or transmit any data off your watch. SUPPORTED DEVICES Every Connect IQ 4.0+ round Garmin watch — Forerunner (165, 255, 265, 570, 955, 965, 970), fenix 7/8 (incl. Solar) & fenix E, epix 2 / Pro, enduro 3, Venu 2/3 (& Venu 4), Vivoactive 5/6, Instinct 3 / E / Crossover, plus Approach (golf), Descent (dive), D2 (aviation), and MARQ specialty watches. Square/rectangular panels (Venu Sq 2, Venu X1) are not supported. Equip Bloom, and take a moment in the fresh spring air.

[1.0.2] - 2026-06-26 Fixed Garbled date on non-Latin locales (e.g. Chinese on Venu 4): the date line now builds the weekday and month from their numeric values and our own English abbreviations, instead of the device's localized day_of_week/month strings. The custom Exocet label font is Latin-only, so localized CJK names had no glyphs and rendered as garbled boxes. Version 1.0.1 — Performance & reliability This release focuses on smoothness and battery, with no change to the look of the face. • NO MORE FREEZING: the render path was rebuilt to stay inside Garmin's per-frame power budget. Always-on now repaints only the central time/date band each minute, and the full scene is far lighter per frame — so the face keeps running instead of locking up, especially on MIP / Solar watches. • ADAPTIVE QUALITY: the scene now measures its own render time and self-tunes its detail (text outlines, grove detail, drifting petals, sun rays) to your hardware, so it keeps animating smoothly on every watch. • SMOOTHER & LEANER: the AMOLED sky gradient is now cached and reused, sensor/clock/settings reads are gathered once per frame, the sunrise/sunset solve is throttled while waiting for a location fix, and several per-frame allocations were removed — all reducing battery cost and stutter. • ROBUSTNESS: hardened the sun-math and cloud-drift code against rare edge cases that could stall the face. • The bee seconds marker now tucks away cleanly in low-power on every device, rather than sitting frozen mid-orbit. Thanks for wearing Bloom! Version 1.0.0 — Initial Release • A fresh, pastel spring-meadow watch face, fully procedural and scaled to every Connect IQ 4.0+ round panel. • LIVING SKY: pastel dawn, soft midday blue, rose sunset, and a starry lavender night — anchored to your real sunrise/sunset, with a bright spring sun and a pale crescent moon along the true day arc. • BLOSSOMING GROVE: green trees speckled with pink-and-white blossoms rustle in the breeze over a wildflower meadow, with petals drifting from each canopy. • WANDERING CRITTERS: rabbits, songbirds, and a butterfly by day; a hedgehog, fox, owl, and bat by night — one visitor at a time, with a setting to turn them off. • BEE SECONDS: a black-outlined bumblebee orbits the dial as the seconds indicator. • CONFIGURABLE COMPLICATIONS: Heart Rate, Body Battery, Device Battery, Steps, Calories, or Off for each bottom slot, each with its own icon, plus a meadow-green steps bar. • Full support for AMOLED and MIP (Solar) screens, with a burn-in-safe always-on mode and high-contrast text outlining throughout. Thanks for wearing Bloom!