Der Handballschiedsrichter - Handball Referee
· vVersion 3.3
About
Der Handballschiedsrichter is the ultimate Garmin app—designed for real-world use on the court. Whether it’s a youth game, a regional league match, or a competitive division game, this app turns your smartwatch into the perfect digital assistant and takes the pressure off you. Stay fully focused on the game while the app discreetly, intuitively, and absolutely reliably tracks all the important game data.
Key features at a glance:
• Flexible game time management: Customizable game and break durations. Dynamically supports 1 to 4 periods (halves/thirds).
• Goals & score: Lightning-fast scoring for home and away teams (including corrections).
• Comprehensive penalty tracking: Track yellow cards, 2-minute penalties, red cards, and blue cards. The app intelligently groups penalties and immediately alerts you when a player receives their 2nd or 3rd penalty.
• Penalty Reconciliation Mode: A dedicated, clear view to check all cards and penalties during halftime or stoppages and make targeted corrections as needed.
• Timeout Manager: Manage up to 3 timeouts per team, including automatic stopping of the game clock.
• Full Customization: Customize team names, jersey colors (for a perfect overview on the display), and the face-off before each game.
• Smart Vibrations: Precise haptic feedback for goals, just before the end of a break, and at the end of the game.
• Fitness Focus: Keep track of your performance with a live heart rate display on the main screen.
Designed for the heat of the moment:
No more accidental input errors! A built-in “Double-Lock” system automatically locks goal entry during breaks and after the final whistle. Large touch zones and smart confirmation prompts (e.g., when ending the game or skipping breaks) ensure stress-free operation, even when things get hectic on the field.
Good call!
What's new
Version 3.3 – Release Notes
- You can now view the penalty standings at any time. To do so, simply swipe from right to left across the screen.
- New game start timer: A built-in countdown now shows you exactly how much time is left until kickoff. A convenient confirmation screen lets you flexibly control, adjust, or skip the countdown at any time.
- Fully automatic multilingual support: The app now natively supports the system language of your Garmin watch. Whether it’s German, English, Danish, or many other languages—menus, titles, and displays adjust completely automatically.
- Direct app launch: The manual language selection menu at startup has been removed. The app now opens even faster and takes you directly to the setup screen without any detours.
- Performance & stability: By switching to the native Garmin resource system (resource strings), the code has been optimized to be leaner, more stable, and more resource-efficient for the watch.
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Release Notes: Version 2.1
New Features & Functions:
Cup Match / Knockout Mode: Integration of overtime and a potential penalty shootout. The automatic handling of special rules for overtime takes a huge amount of stress out of the heated crunch time.
Tournament Mode: A simple on/off feature that automatically reduces a 2-minute penalty (ejection) to 1 minute. A perfect fit for youth leagues or summer grass tournaments, where games often last only 1x 15 minutes and penalties are halved.
Penalty Reconciliation: There is now a central location where you can reconcile all penalties and correct them immediately if necessary. This view is available during timeouts, halftime, and at the end of the game.
Advanced Settings & Full Customization:
Streamlined Setup Menu: The menu has been organized into clear categories and submenus, making the app extremely intuitive to use.
Team Names & Colors: Details such as the names of the home and away teams, the game number, and the respective jersey colors can now be customized.
Flexible Periods: The game duration and halftime length can be customized. Additionally, you can now flexibly choose between 1 and 4 periods.
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Release Notes: Version 1.2
Bug Fixes:
- Fixed crash during text entry: A critical bug has been fixed that caused the app to crash as soon as the entry of team names via the Garmin keyboard was confirmed in the Settings menu (Options).
- Instant application of settings: Changes made in the setup menu (e.g., adjusting the break time, game time, or team colors) are now applied immediately and without delay to the main view, without having to completely cancel the current game or restart the app.
Design & Usability (UI/UX Updates):
- Optimized timeout screen: The layout of the timeout view has been redesigned and visually streamlined. The timers are now more clearly structured and even easier to read in the heat of the game.
- Improved menu design (Cancel button): The red “X” used to close action and penalty menus has been visually refined. It is now more subtle, consistently positioned in the bottom-right corner of all screens, and stands out sharply against any background thanks to a new white outline.