Notice of new version 1.4.19 (June 8th, 2023)

Not at this time. I do not know what Health data if anything will be added in the next release of Samsung Health & Watch One UI releases.

Ron
Samsung Developer Relations

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I forgot to ask if you read all of the WFS does not install on Mac guide

(I had to mention that for others.) I’m sure you did that already :slight_smile:

Ron

I also use MacOS but version 13.4 and there are no starting problems with the new version of WFS.

Edit: Sorry, I misread your post. Older watch faces are also limited by 10 MB (Wear OS app quality  |  App quality  |  Android Developers).

There are new requirements for watch faces on Play Store using the new Watch Face Format. Your upload might fail this requirement (Wear OS app quality  |  App quality  |  Android Developers):

Performance / Memory Usage - Watch Face Format / WO-P8 / Assets do not exceed the memory budget of 10 MB.

I don’t know how these asset sizes are calculated though. Try to reduce the size of your image and animation assets as much as possible (like @r.liechty_SDR described).

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Why the previous version of WFS is removed from download. It was helpful since the new one is not ready yet for wear os 3 fully.

Why release a wfs version when wear os 4 is still not here. Please kindly add download link for version 1.3.13 last version.

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The latest version of WFS (v1.4.19) support Wear OS 3 as well as Wear OS 4 and there is no change from v1.4.13 regarding this. Can you share specifically the difficulties you are experiencing with Wear OS 3?

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I have no difficulties with wear os 3 because i am still using older V1.3.13 watch face studio. And i intend keep using it till the time wear os 4 is not released and i intend keep updating my previous watchfaces as well with 1.3.13

I today wanted to install Watch face studio 1.3.13 on my 2nd pc . Seeing all the bugs mentioned and reading every comment from few developers. i can still see its not feasible for me to update to V 1.4.19.

Why would you remove the previous versions from download area. Where as all previous releases were present in past before this latest release. I cannot find V1.3.13 on web anywhere. I need V1.3.13 NOT V1.4.19

And i never updated to the 1.4.13 Beta

Thanks

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my watch is the latest Galaxy watch 5 pro, so is it running API Level 33 and higher (Wear 4 and later)? When I turn on Sync to device, the step goal is fixed to 6000 although my step goal is different. If my watch is not Wear 4, how can I upgrade to Wear 4?

@eric88

I believe there is a new One UI for Galaxy Watch in Beta testing and that will have Wear 4 version.

In a recent Samsung Developer newsletter they mentioned Health adding a Heartrate rhythm notification (HRN) for the next version of Galaxy Watch and that Galaxy Watch4 and Watch5 will be updated in series of releases. Historically the new Version of Galaxy Watch has released in August.

Ron

The situation is that I was able to publish the application on the Play Store with the 1.3.14 version of WFS, but with the 1.4.19 version, it’s not working, it seems something is unnecessarily wasting memory. Indeed, I’m working with a relatively large PNG file, the image size is 1906x1260 px (for sprite usage, so I’m sliding certain parts of the image into the right place), but the image contains only one color (1 color + 8-bit alpha channel), so the PNG file size is 79 kilobytes. I have a feeling that when the watch opens this single-color image, it decompresses it into memory and interprets it as a 24-bit image, which could certainly be several megabytes when decompressed. Is it possible that the new WFS version handles optimized PNG files in memory differently, and a few kilobytes of the image turn into several megabytes in memory?

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Hi Rian,

Did you compare the .aab size of both projects to see it it was indeed the size issue? If it is significantly larger then please submit an example project and submit that as a developer support request.

Ron
Samsung Developer Relations

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Same issue.
I have apps up on the Play store already, I did minor updates to the apps design, and now Google has rejected the app’s updates. :/. Even though they are the same, in all essence.

But the Play Store requirements for Watch Faces changed last month.

Ron

FIXED!
17/6/2023

1.4.20 can be finally used to publish watch faces.

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@amoledwatchfaces . Where can we see 1.4.20 ? :trophy:

Hi,

What will happen to the watch faces that already have the HR measurement feature implemented, along with a shortcut for manual measurements, when we update them with the newest version of watch face studio?

The majority of watch faces have these settings. Will we need to remove them when updating to a new version?

  • A significant portion of negative reviews are due to HR issues. If we remove HR from all the watch faces that have already been purchased in the past months, we would undermine ourselves and our efforts.
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Hi, I’m not sure exactly what you mean but download links for WFS 1.4.20 are here
Watch Face Studio downloads | Samsung Developers

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I believe the Wear 3 API 30 versions will work in Wear 4 but without the Wear 4 features that may upset some buyers. I believe that Galaxy Watch4 and Galaxy Watch5 will be updated to Wear 4 in a One UI 5 update.

For Tizen you in the Store you would have two binaries and set one for Tizen3 and one for Tizen4. I imagine Play Store is the same since it is quite normal for Games to have multiple binaries.

Maybe one of the old sellers can chip in on that.
Ron

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Hi everyone. I noticed that there are two edit actions (probably added with WFS 1.4.19) →
Style Copy (Ctrl + Shift + C) and Style Past (Ctrl + Shift + V)

Are these working for your guys?

Tomas