Hello everyone. I’m writing my first Tizen Wearable HTML5 app, a custom watch clock for my Gear S.

When you lift your arm, the watch will automatically wake up and display the watch clock app in a “dimmed” or inactive state. This is still enough to read the time and see the watch face, and this works with all built-in watch faces shipping with the Gear S.

However if you deploy a custom watch clock widget, there doesn’t seem to be any way to override or define this dimmed state. When you lift your arm, you will see some built-in basic digital time display. Your own watch face will only appear after touch. This is also a problem in the custom watch faces I’ve downloaded from other people. Maybe this is a new feature that hasn’t been documented, as the samples (AnalogWatch and ClockWidget) have the same issue.

Secondly, the Samsung built-in watch faces seem to be customizable in the widget selector. There is a small Edit icon underneath each clock face preview. How can I implement this functionality for my own watch clock widget?

Thanks,

Christian