#Garmin watch faces actiface install#

Once all steps are completed, run the app and this is what youвЂ™ll see in a simulator: The installation will be somewhat painful if itвЂ™s your first development endeavor, but nothing like installation of an IBM Websphere Portal.ДЄfter all installation is done you can go ahead and create your own sample app to make sure everything works.

#Garmin watch faces actiface install#

In short, youвЂ™ll need to download and install the Connect IQ SDK, sign up for dev account, install Eclipse (yuck) if you donвЂ™t already have one, install Connect IQ Eclipse plug-in, which turns Eclipse into a Connect IQ development environment, and generate dev key. Nothing exciting to talk about here, I just followed GarminвЂ™s getting started guide: I went on to design the dial on a piece of paper as IвЂ™ve heard that designing upfront makes the whole development process easier, and so I went through a couple of iterations. I didnвЂ™t want to ask users for any extra permissions and I wanted this app to be as easy on the battery as possible, without any background processing. I wanted the dial to show time, date, weather, pulse, steps, calories, distance walked today, and battery charge. I wanted the watch face to look like Casio G-Shock because they are awesome, particularly G-LIDE model (GBX100) So, with that in mind, weвЂ™re going to design and implement a watch dial in monkey-c and deploy it to GarminвЂ™s IQ store. Garmin has an equivalent of Apple App Store (good name) or Google Play Store (horrible name), and itвЂ™s called Garmin Connect IQ Store (IвЂ™d like to be in that naming meeting)ДЄpp development for Garmin watches is done using proprietary language вЂњMonkey CвЂќ () (probably named in that same meeting after everyone got drunk) It is that last aspect that weвЂ™re going to concentrate on in this tutorial. They are rugged, they hold the battery charge for days, some models even weeks, and they are highly customizable. ThereвЂ™s a good chance youвЂ™re wearing a watch on your wrist right now, and if youвЂ™re not wearing a horologically significant or sentimental time piece youвЂ™re probably wearing a smart watch, and if youвЂ™re wearing a smart watch it should be a Garmin watch (they did NOT pay me to say this)