Back to unsaved project a couple checks. Go to Project menu preferences → General and see if the location for your project is the same as your project is located. Default is in the C:\Users\Username\Gearwatchdesigner\workspace folder if you have it somewhere else try changing it to that folder. Make sure it isn’t a cloud drive.
unlock all the items you have locked and make sure you didn’t somehow change the opacity to zero somehow that those items are actually visible.
I double checked the AOD and the project was designed in the “Normal” screen, not the AOD. If I click on the AOD top right corner button you’ve mentioned i receive a Warning like the one below, so I’l “quite sure” I’m designing the watch face in the correct place…
You need to have an AOD for newer Tizen based watches. If you con’t create one then GWS will create one for you.
You can tell that the difference between the two windows because in both the working window and the preview window there will be annotation about the on pixel ratio. On the bottom of the work window, top of the preview window. You seem to be OK for that.
I don’t have experience with the Studio to understand the other files inside the .zip of the project, but the fact of the icon inside the .zip is empty and the icon of the Studio new project screen shows all the project’s elements is weird!
There is an image but it is just the black background
Taking advantage of this discussion, I’ve just started a new project from scratch for testing purpose. Since I started to use the Studio, every time I save the project I receive some warnings like to one below. By default I just click YES or OK to go ahead…
Galaxy Watch Designer Project format changed a few years ago when the ability to create Tizen 2.x project was removed. This warning is telling you that you can’t open these new projects with the older GWD software. Click don’t show again you can ignore this warning.
On the other hand, when I try to deploy the project to the watch thru WiFi using the F9 (Run On Device) I have this waring
You have to build the project if you are successfully building the project there should be a .tpk file with the same name in the Workspace folder.
Also you need an Author and Distributor Certificates which I assume you already have. However if you had a designer certificate for your watch, the watch might have updated to software and you need a new designer certificate to run on Watch.
Last but not least, the Target API version is locked on the “Tizen 4.0 Wearable devices”.
Tizen OS is backwards compatible so building for Tizen 4 is fine. The only thing in Tizen 5.5.x is some Health updates that are not supported by GWS so building for 5.5 wouldn’t help.
Ron
Samsung Developer Relations
