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Get the latest news right on your watch! This was a great hobby project, but now I stopped development. I will probably be able to fix any major bugs, but there will be no more feature updates. In case anyone is inspired to take over this project, feel free to message me! This Widget: * Has a simple and responsive design * Supports more than 20 different countries * Updates the news hourly * Allows you to open the articles directly on your smartphone * And is completely free! supported countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, China, Czechia, France, Germany, Great Britain, Greece, India, Italy, Israel, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, UAE, USA To change your country just press the "open-menu" key (on devices like fenix hold the up key, on touch-screen devices you can do a long touch on the splash screen) and click "select country". First you will see countries you are likely interested in. If you want to select any supported country scroll down this menu and click 'more countries'. Should you encounter some bugs or should you have some ideas on how to improve this app, please tell me via the contact developer button :) Let me know which other countries you would like me to support! Powered by NewsData.io API (https://www.newsdata.io) thumbnail source: https://www.shareicon.net/author/arun-thomas Privacy note: This app does not collect any personal data. If you download news, the country code and the timestamp can be stored to allow me to further improve this widget. Which data are stored might change in the future.

1.3.17: Changed the amount of news downloaded 1.3.16: Small UI improvements 1.3.15: Fixed chinese text not having line breaks and a bug where the device could run out of memory 1.3.14: Added support for Hungarian news 1.3.13: Fixed a bug where an incorrect error message is shown 1.3.12: Removed support for vivoactive series because I am tired of getting bad reviews because garmin can't fix their stuff 1.3.10: Added Czech news, bugfixes 1.3.9: Added United Arab Emirates 1.3.8: the main menu is now accessible from anywhere in the app 1.3.5: Improved error messages 1.3.3: fixed a memory error on some ciq 3.x devices. If not enough memory is available the device will download less than 20 news 1.3.1: Bugfixes 1.3.0: Added rtl support, optimized text rendering; the glance view should now work better; dropped support for vivoactive; improvements and bug fixes 1.2.5: Added Israel (Hebrew) 1.2.1: Added experimental sliding glance view for the fenix 6 pro models. To activate got to Main menu - Experimental - Sliding glance view. Note that this feature was not tested on an actual device yet, so the widget might crash. Also added a progressbar when loading the news; bugfixes. 1.1.3: Improved text rendering performance substantially (especially noticable on older devices like fenix3); upgrade to ciq 3.1.6 1.1.2: Added support for Captain Marvel, First Avenger, GPSMAP, MARQ and Venu devices; improvements 1.1.1: Added Chinese language. Note that chinese characters cannot be rendered if you do not have installed chinese language. 1.1.0: Now you can select every available country right in the menu! got to select country - More Countries...; bugfixes 1.0.11: added support for fenix 6 series and vivoactive 4 1.0.10: added country Belgium(French) 1.0.9: improvements 1.0.8: memory and speed optimization for old devices 1.0.7: fixed potential bug when switching languages 1.0.4: devices with a touchscreen can now open the main menu by long tapping the splash screen; when the device is not connected to a smartphone, the last known news will be shown instead of an error message; added about screen 1.0.2: CIQ 2.4 devices now store 20 articles. Older devices will save 8 articles. Also fixed a small design flaw 1.0.0: release ~ 21.06.2019 0.2.0: support for many different countries, support for almost all devices, translations (incomplete) 0.1.0: modern design and news caching (cache invalidates after 1 hour) 0.0.0: initial release (Beta) ~ 20.06.2019