Changelog

• Added: No color quantization

This online builder only implements a very basic color quantization algorithm. In order to display a better quality image on your watch, I strongly suggest that you should use an image editor (like photoshop, or gimp) to export your image before you import it to your design.

Under global widget section, you can check/uncheck this option.

When this option is checked, any image imported to your design will not be forced to reduce color to match device’s color space.

• Added: In the widget section, the order of widget is listed in which it’s layered in your design. The top the list, the bottom the widget is layered.

• Fixed: analog hand jumping

Reworking with the image rotation method, now analog hands are rotating in the center point without moving. (I still see one pixel moving, but it’s much better than previous version)

• Fixed: can’t save to storage from background.
• Fixed: PIN not pickup.
• Fixed: all activities history data have inverse chart orientation.
• Fixed: cached location name make watch face app display IQ icon.
• Fixed: limited OWM hourly forecasts to 12 hour. (48 hours makes out-of-memory error for some devices with small memory)
• Added: Verify OWM key

1. Added “Send API Key to watch”

All OWM data fields require open weather map API key. In order to enter your own key on your device, please follow the following article.

How to set Open Weather Map API Key
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• Added data fields from Open Weather Map

The Open Weather Map (OWM) API provides the following weather data for any geographical coordinates: (signup here to get your free API key)

• Reverse geocoding (return the location name, state, country)
• Current weather
• Minute forecast for 1 hour
• Hourly forecast for 48 hours
• Daily forecast for 7 days

When you add any OWM data field, online builder will create two files (one APPID.prg, the other APPID-settings.json). Before you copy both files into the Garmin/Apps folder, you will need to modify the APPID-settings.json, and replace the “demo” with your OWM API key.

From:

To:

Without your own OWM API key, system will use a shared free key to retrieve data from OWM. But each free key has daily limits of 1000 calls, so eventually it will reach its limits and no data will be returned.

If you use OWM fields in your design, your watch face should retrieve data from internet every 30 minutes. But if you moved (approximately 1km), your watch face will retrieve data from internet in 5 or less minutes, depends on when the data were retrieved last time.

If you have any questions, please ask them at the reddit forum.

Enjoy!

1. Updated SDK to version 4.0.10, and add three new devices
   • D2 Air X10
   • Instinct 2
   • Instinct 2S
2. Added an option for no update in low power mode.

• Added: search function in watchface list page
• Fixed: a bug to display 24 hour hand
• Added: Bitmap Font Generator for Garmin

Now you can preview your bitmap font before generating it.

• Added: 24-hour hour hand
• Added: analog hand can be added separately
• Fixed: a bug of “the noon-sunset-midnight goal” always shows 100% complete
• Fixed: a bug of angle slider visibility when changing the shape of goal field

• Fixed analog watch face’s out of memory issue.

Now you can use fancy hands as long as the hand image is not too big. Check out this beautiful watchface shared by whiskeybro

For anybody created analog watch face before but got IQ icon when launch it on your watch, please reopen your design and rebuild it, and try it again. This version reduces memory usage tremendously.

Enjoy it.