WFS v 1.7.x will be there soon!

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Dear all,

Hope you are doing well! As you already know the hotfix version 1.6.10 deployed to support target SDK 33. Hope you will get time to update your watch faces.

Today we are excited to share that the upcoming version 1.7.x is scheduled to be deployed within August 2024 :smiley:.

The Upcoming version supports new features from WFF (Watch Face Format) version 2 as follows:

  1. Weather tags & forecast functions
  2. Multiple color pickers with Gradient type, and improvements.

We’ve received a ton of feature requests for the weather tag. We expect you will find this useful :smiling_face:.

Keep an eye on Watch Face Studio Site to get the latest version of Watch Face Studio.

Thank you.

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Thank you, that is great news. And thank you for V.1.6.10 because of the time related problem.
PLEASE can you share with us information regarding account terminating issue, this is BIG problem for us in this moment.
If you can, please find out is there some problem with WFS file or comp app, or something else.
Thank you

CC

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Thanks for sharing. I want to ask some questions:

  1. Is it possible to customize the weather forecast icon? If so, that would be great.
  2. Having to connect multiple times between watch face studio and galaxy watch to test the watch face is very inconvenient. Is it possible to come up with a solution to maintain the connection once for 1 working session?
    Thank you so much
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That’s great news!

I think I’ll have a nervous breakdown if WFS starts supporting Watch Face Format v2 stuff … before supporting BooleanConfiguration or ListConfiguration from Watch Face Format v1.

Like heck, Wear OS 5 won’t support watchfaces using the Jetpack library anymore. The only way to get configurable watchfaces is UserConfigurations and WFS doesn’t support them.

What does Google and Samsung expect from me? That I edit the watchface.xml in a text editor myself?

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@Jakia.Sultana . Will the Weather Tags include Sun Rise Sunset time for our Location ? Will the Location come from GPS or the Connected Mobile Device ? Of course we will all be very Greatful for what we will be given . Thank you for letting us Know . Lots of Changes that is for sure .

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Is it possible to put code on it? Our watch face has complex logic and I need to write code.

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@Jakia.Sultana many thanks for your efforts but I totally agree with the consideration of @davidsung. Please implement fully Watch Face Format features.

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This would be a dream, but I doubt than editing watchface.xml would ever come to Watch Face Studio. But would be just amazing if possible.

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Thanks Jakia, looking forward to it!

Could you also add support for more sensor tags (for devices that have the sensors)? Especially for Compass (1-360 degrees), and also Barometer/Altimeter (pressure in inHg, pressure in hPa, altitude in feet, altitude in meters). Thanks!

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I’d actually like to do that as an interim workaround. Do you know how I can access the WFF XML code generated by WFS? All I see saved on my PC is a .wfs file.

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If you Change the file extension .wfs to .ZIP . you will see that you can now see all the Files . Including the Graphics and Fonts . Enjoy . BTW don’t Zip it . Just change the extension .

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WFS definitely supports UserConfiguration and ListConfigurations. Without it you wouldn’t be able to include styles in your watch faces. Only thing missing is BooleanConfiguration.

No one is pushing you to use WFS. Google provides guides and docs for WFF so developer can build watch face completely fine without WFS.

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Not yet at the moment. Maybe In the future. Location name tag will be missing too.

I think that it comes from connected mobile device. I may be wrong.

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@amoledwatchfaces Thank You . One step at a time . :+1::+1:

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Missing the point. It is not possible to create multiple choice or yes/no options to modify the layout of the watchface. Even ColorConfiguration isn’t supported fully as the localization of the colors is missing.

Not true. If you are going to the official Google docs for creating watchfaces, they will tell you to either use Watch Face Studio or to build your own WFF designer tool (good joke).

All references to the Jetpack library and Android Studio have been removed as only the WFF will be supported in the future.

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I agree that it feels like we’re being pushed into using WFS. I have been doing a lot of searching and so far have been unable to find any up-to-date documentation or tutorials on how to create watch faces in anything other than Watch Face Studio. Everything I’ve found is essentially deprecated by Google.

Watch Face Studio is a great visual design tool, I really appreciate the drag and drop design approach but @amoledwatchfaces, If you know where we could find current information on how to use Android Studio and Watch Face Format, I for one would be interested in that information. Apparently there used to be a project template for it in some older versions of Android Studio, but that was removed before I got interested in this.

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@davidsung @BloodDragon

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No?

  1. Watch Face Format - Use the Watch Face Format to easily create a watch face, or to create a watch face creation tool for designers.
  2. Watch Face Studio - Build a watch face using Watch Face Studio, a no-code watch face creation tool for designers
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Me: What does Google and Samsung expect from me? That I edit the watchface.xml in a text editor myself?

You: No, there are alternatives.

Me: Like what?

You: You edit the watchface.xml yourself.

… are you kidding me?

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I didn’t write this anywhere.

You asked:

I replied:

the rest is just your fiction.

Final answer: Google is not pushing you to do anything or/and does not expect anything from you. You don’t want to use WFS? Then you can learn writing watch faces in xml and using VSCode or Android Studio for building them. Google provides guides, sample projects etc.

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