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…
Table hockey madness (part 3)
Hi, it’s time for the third part in my series about Garmin ConnectIQ app development. Previously I have already installed the ConnectIQ SDK and the Eclipse plugin as described in the Readme file. The planned structure of the app is as follows: A Monkey C app is built on top…
Table hockey madness (part 2)
Hi, This post is continuation to the first part of the series about the development of another Garmin ConnectIQ app that can be used for bookkeeping of scores in a table hockey or football game. Let’s start with the actual work now. First I want to sketch a couple of…
Table hockey madness (part 1)
Hi there, a couple of weeks ago I wrote about my first app for the Garmin Connect IQ platform, i.e. “Juice Left” a data field for viewing the current remaining battery level. In the following post I intend to present another app I’m currently implementing, and maybe provide some deeper…
Development of a sample Connect IQ App
Ever since I have had Garmin Vívoactive HR, I have planned to implement something for the relatively fresh ConnectIQ platform. Obviously Garmin still has a long way to go to attract enough developers to its platform, whereas Android and iOS are the clear leaders on the smartphone market. This may be tricky,…