Dressed Down
· v12.8.0
About
Clean, minimal anti-aliased watch face inspired by classic dress watches, but with a pop of color to keep it from getting boring. You can customize the color of every watch face element (including setting to the active theme) - I am counting on you to make good decisions ;)
Optional Complications:
* 12 o'clock: phone notifications.
* 9 o'clock: low battery warning (less than 25%.)
* 6 o'clock: move bar active.
* You can move the complications between a rectangle on the background and displaying on the chapters. (Note that you must select contrasting colors for the complication to be noticeable, if you choose to display on the chapters.)
* Multifunction "GMT" hand - alternate time zone, steps, heart rate, move bar position, alarm count, battery level, active minutes, elevation, pressure.
* Seconds hand on active watch face.
Note about permissions: Required to read pressure for GMT hand.
See the rest of my available watch faces here: https://apps.garmin.com/en-US/developer/9a826280-7457-49a2-8eae-5e522c513c06/apps. I have several more in development.
If you notice a bug or want an additional theme color, please feel free to get in touch using the "contact developer" button. You can also comment in the forums on my watchface development thread: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/showcase/242295/watchfaces-coldheart-analog-series. See the thread for planned update information.
Note for AMOLED and TLC always on display: In order to satisfy burn-in protection rules, the background needs to be black. The watch face switches to black background for AOD, so if you have any watchface elements in black they may not be visible in AOD.
FAQ:
Q: This watch face eats battery/lags! Can you fix this?
A: TLDR - I'm working on it, but some amount of this is unavoidable. Full context: The method this watch face uses to create the anti-aliased graphics is essentially by chopping up the graphics into tiles and loading them into Garmin as a font, which is the only anti-aliasing method that works on all watch models at this time. This is a resource-intensive process, and thus some level of battery usage and lag is unavoidable. I am frequently making updates to increase the efficiency of the code, which should help. Note that this will never be as fast as the built-in watch faces. Hopefully I make up for it in graphical quality.
Q: Can you add always-on seconds?
A: For now, a seconds hand during high power mode is available in watchface settings. Maybe eventually, but please do not count on it. See above for the graphics generation method - it is very difficult to create something that can update every second without blowing through the allotted resources. There is a method that I have seen, but I do not know enough to understand it yet. I will eventually try it, but it is low priority at this time.
Q: I've themed my watch face into an unholy abomination, and now I want to go back to default settings. How can I do this?
A: Each element states the default in the settings header (except for theme, the default of which is Mint Blue.) Simply revert all settings to the stated default following the headers and you'll be back to the default.
Q: I can't set a UTC- time zone for the alternate time zone!
A: This is a weird CIQ store bug. Please try putting in the number first, then moving your cursor to the start of the box and adding the "-" sign.
What's new
12.1.0-12.8.0 - support for more
12.0.0 - Beta support for seconds hand on active watch face. Off by default - turn on in watchface settings.