Feature request: Add support to get data from Ambient light sensor.
The problem: Having multiple watch parts illuminated in Always-on display mode can be really jarring in a dark environment.
How this could work: When the watch is raised, the brightness sensor can be polled once for a value. If ambient brightness is very low, set the transparency of non-essential components like minute markers to 0 and show only essential parts such as the hour and minute hands.
If ambient brightness is high, the whole watch except the seconds hand may be shown in always-on mode. This makes it more visible for a quick glance.
From my understanding, the on-pixel ratio was created with the intention of saving battery life in ambient mode by lighting fewer pixels. It does not account lighting conditions itself.
This appears to be a part of the Android SDK and can be done when designing watch faces in Android Studio.
Or able to separatly pull the info from world clock? Insteadā¦e.g like time zone off set to be not get info from goblal local time. That is the world clock complications to break down to hours/sec/mins tags? So like a tag ,[world_clock_offset]
You could try a crude workaround, make 12 images of the extra hour hand each turned to respective angle and add them as styles so you can pick the one with desired differece
We have only silly options, when they for years refuse to extend the scoop of their watchface tools and integrate user interactive tags (variables). And no, they dont need to be stored on the phone nor permanently, the watches have enough memory for few extra integer values.
Most 3rd party watch face tools use the Mobile companion app for customizations. Their standalone ones may be able to do this but iāve heard their tools are harder to use than Android Studio and Jet Pack.
Ron, can I put here an example watchface I made on one of those third party platforms? Just to demonstrate, what can be made with few interactive variables (which also work stand alone, without the phone in reach) in a browser based creator, that is as simple to use as Powerpoint. If it is against rules, remove this post please, but what was best, until recently those preview pages were interactive, so you could test the features online before downloading the face to watch.
A couple of features that will be nice to be added
See battery percentage from the samsung battery widget, the phone is not needed as there is a good app but it will be nice to see my galaxy buds battery life.
get the timer and stopwatch feature from official samsung watch face where it shows the time remaining in the watch face (google clock lets it but i like the samsung one better)
custom progress bar for 3rd party complications like galaxy watch studio for tizen has
I request for this option (image below) for Short Text Complication(Text layer) if possible. I believe this is about localization. For some languages like Arabic, English numbers are not displaying when set it to True Type font. I tried using bitmap but bitmap not display either. If this Text layer in the Short Text complication will have this option to set the default to English, I believe this issue will be fixed. Any temporary suggestion is appreciated. Thank you!
Or ability to change project name. (Nameing the watch face) not the wfs file
if you go to the Build (Publish) settings and at the bottom is where you set the name of the Watch that shows in the Wearable App and watch when minimized.
it has a Default ID_LABEL_ above that shows the ID label and to the right the watch name. go up to the watch name and then back to the bar and TextID shows up tap on it and add new label then name and set that for default.
Build your watch face one time, I think you need to do one build before doing a run on device for this to take effect.
can have the ability to cut and paste across project files
I think they are working on that it is a top request.
I wish the app shortcut complication via small image or icon could show only text (app name) instead of icon display. Some designs may have a better text format than icons.
