Compass: Sleek Design
· v0.3.0
About
Simple stylish compass widget, highly inspired from iOS compass app. Get your compass heading in degrees and GPS location from your wearable and enjoy data displayed with sleek design.
Note:
Soon there will be another copy of this app, except it will be "App Only", that means app without widget. This should help some of the older wearables to run this app properly.
Compass app uses built in compass in your wearable. If your device does not have magnetic compass, the compass app will attempt to use GPS instead to get heading. Please check out steps to get proper heading by reading further down.
Elevation accuracy may vary.
[Magnetic Compass] Make sure to calibrate your compass in your settings. The steps to find calibration may look like this:
1. Go to Menu
2. Settings
3. Sensors
4. Compass
5. Calibrate compass
[GPS Compass] If you dont have magnetic compass on your wearable follow these steps to get heading with GPS.
1. Go to info view by swiping up or pressing down and make sure you got GPS connection.
2. Then go back to main view and walk 1 m/s or faster.
3. You should see your compass pointing at your direction you're moving at (Keep in mind that moving wearable around wont change direction).
There are 4 options in the settings that can be toggled:
- Plain mode: makes app use simple drawing, saves some battery
- fewer calls: Slows down refresh rate, saves some battery
- Recalibrate reminder: Reminder on start about calibrating compass
- Vibration: Vibration on your compass
Controls:
- Swipe down / Button up: Go up, changes view
- Swipe up / Button down: Go down, changes view
- double tap / enter or select key: Toggles heading marker in compass
This widget is tested with major devices, so some devices may not work as intended. Please send email to me with wearable model and short description.
Your thoughts in reviews will be very helpful for improving this little project.
What's new
0.3.0:
- change: Improved drawing lines around compass peformance by calculating only one fourth of circle and mirroring.
- change: Draw one thick red arc when tracking heading instead of 3 thin red arcs.
- add: GPS based compass, wearables without magnetic compass can move 1m/s or faster to get their heading.
- add: Speed meter in info view.
- fix: Using connect iq app to change settings while compass app is open, didn't take effect.
- fix: Button support for heading marker.
0.2.0:
- add: Vibration.
- add: Heading marker by double tapping on compass.
- add: New icon to emphasize that it’s a compass.
0.1.0:
- Initial release.