Hi there, It’s again time for another app; this time on the JavaScript app development platform Meteor. Since I don’t want to trash the experiences gathered when implementing WeightWatch App for ConnectIQ, I decided to implement a similar app running in a web browser, with a responsive GUI, and fancy…
Gradually back to the training
Hey, After having spent a while with other topics, it’s now time for a running related blog post. As I have lately written, I’ve been very disappointed with my general health, but I hope things are finally proceeding to a right direction. This is now the second week I’m able…
Weight widget (part 4)
Hi there, Tonight I concentrated on the app GUI and the target was to get valid data parsed from the JSON (that eventually will come from Fitbit API), and to view the weight and the date of the latest measurement on the view labels. The function below is the callback that…
Weight widget (part 3)
Good evening, Back to the weight widget topic, and more specifically to the request that is made to the Fitbit API. I have struggled a couple of hours tonight with the method makeWebRequest, but finally I managed to get it running with the help from several web resources. I haven’t…
Weight widget (part 2)
Hello, in this second part of my blog posts about the weight widget for Connect IQ I will present the basic app structure and some fundamental methods with the target to reach the basic functionality for obtaining data from Fitbit and presenting it on the watch ui. In the first post I…
Weight widget (part 1)
Hi there, This will be another watch app based blog post; I want to continue with my lately arisen interest in developing apps for Garmin Connect IQ. This time I want to develop a watch widget that fetches data from an external source of data, i.e. the app uses the Fitbit…
Table hockey madness (part 4)
Hello, I have once again returned to the topic that has bugged me for the past few weeks: the Garmin Connect IQ based watch app for table hockey or football. As I wrote in part 1, part 2 and part 3, the development wasn’t without problems. I have now implemented…
Break from running and weight gain
Hi there, I encountered the first disappointment of the year 2017 first thing in the morning, when stepping on the scale after several weeks’ break. I was well aware of that I might have gained some pounds after having been unable to train for several weeks due to a prolonged…