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Custom watch clock application on Gear S

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

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9 Replies
gerrit kleyn Winkel

Definitly interested in this too.

keep us informed if you find something please, I will do too.

Esther Gómez

I have the same problem.

daniel kim

Hi,

There is setting to change the default clock face in Gear S. if I selected my ClockWidget to the default clock face, then I couldn't observe such problem.

Can you see such phenomenon even if you change the default clock face in setting of Gear S?

gerrit kleyn Winkel

were exactly did you set that?

daniel kim

Hi,

I got it now and think that this small digital clock is shown to improve the battery life because Gear S need to access network by itself and has bigger screen as well.

I've checked document but can't find any way to remove this small digital clock.

gerrit kleyn Winkel

You totally confuse me, is now possible or not to change the default clock that is shwon when you move your whrist?

daniel kim

We can change the default clock(Active state clock) with our custom clock widget.

But, according to UI design of Gear S, it's impossible to change the always-on state clock.

I wish this UI design will help you.

http://developer.samsung.com/technical-doc/view.do?v=T000000184

 

Esther Gómez

Yes, the problem seens to be that only native clock Widget can manage "always on" state. For non-native ClockWidget in "always on" state the digital default clock is shown.

Denis Miroshnikov

Also intresting that all