Star Spangled Banner — 4th of July Face

Star Spangled Banner is a premium digital watch face that brings Independence Day to your wrist all year round — and celebrates America's 250th in 2026. Fireworks rise from an open field and burst overhead, a waving American flag stands in the breeze, fireflies drift through the summer night, and a distant tree line rings the horizon, all procedurally rendered. Large outlined time and clean complications keep you connected through the celebration. FEATURES & DETAILS • FIREWORKS SHOW: Rockets streak up from the field and burst into expanding, fading showers of color — several at once, all evening and night. • LIVING SUMMER SKY: A backdrop that shifts by time of day — warm dawn, bright midday blue, golden hour, a fiery sunset, then a deep starry night where the fireworks shine. • OPEN FIELD & TREE LINE: A rolling green field ringed by a distant forest edge — that wide-open-field look — with a waving Stars-and-Stripes flag as its centerpiece. • REAL SUN ARC: A summer sun and silver moon arc across the sky, driven by the REAL sunrise/sunset for your location and date. • FIREFLIES AT NIGHT: Soft yellow-green glints drift and blink over the field after dark. • AMERICA'S 250TH: A golden "1776-2026" banner marks the Semiquincentennial — 250 years of independence. Toggle it any time. • GRAND FINALE MODE: One switch cranks up the show — denser fireworks day and night, red-white-blue bunting across the top, a twinkling flag, and a biplane trailing a star-spangled pennant. • FIELD CRITTERS: Occasional visitors cross the scene, one at a time. By day: a bald eagle, deer, cottontail, butterfly. By night: an owl, red fox, raccoon, bat. • SPINNING STAR SECONDS: A five-pointed star orbits the perimeter as the seconds tick. • CONFIGURABLE COMPLICATIONS: Set the bottom-left and bottom-right to Heart Rate, Body Battery, Device Battery (live fill), Steps, Calories, or Off — each with a matching icon. A red-white-blue steps bar with a count sits in the center. • HIGH-CONTRAST OUTLINES: All text carries a crisp black outline for readability against the moving backdrop. BUILT FOR YOUR DISPLAY Looks right on both AMOLED (smooth gradient skies, glowing bursts) and MIP/Solar (high-contrast flat fills tuned for sunlight), with fonts baked for every resolution from 166px Instinct panels up to 454px flagships. ALWAYS-ON FRIENDLY On AMOLED the always-on display switches to a burn-in-safe variant — dim time/date, thin outline metrics, no fills or animation, pixels shifted each minute. MIP panels always show the full face. SETTINGS Show Date • Fireworks • America's 250th • Grand Finale • Field Critters • Step Goal Override • Bottom-Left & Bottom-Right Complications (Off / Heart Rate / Body Battery / Device Battery / Steps / Calories). PRIVACY Uses only the SensorHistory permission (Body Battery). Heart rate and last-known location are read on-device to show your BPM and compute local sunrise/sunset; no data is collected or transmitted off your watch. SUPPORTED DEVICES Every Connect IQ 4.0+ round watch — Forerunner (165, 255/S, 265/S, 570, 955, 965, 970), fenix 7/7S/7X & 8 (AMOLED & Solar) & E, epix 2 / Pro, enduro 3, Venu 2/3 & 4, Vivoactive 5/6, Instinct 3 / E / Crossover, plus Approach, Descent, D2, and MARQ models. (Square panels — Venu Sq 2, Venu X1 — are not supported.) Equip Star Spangled Banner, and let the rockets fly.

Version 1.0.0 — Initial Release • Fireworks that rise from the field and burst overhead through the evening and night. • A living summer sky on the real sunrise/sunset, an open rolling field ringed by a distant tree line, and a waving American flag. • Fireflies at night, a spinning star seconds marker, and occasional field critters (eagle, deer, rabbit, butterfly, owl, fox, raccoon, bat). • "America's 250th" banner for the 2026 Semiquincentennial, and a Grand Finale mode with bunting, denser fireworks, and a biplane flyover. • Configurable complications, a red-white-blue steps bar, full AMOLED + MIP support, and a burn-in-safe always-on layout. Happy Independence Day!