Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts
Showing posts with label weather. Show all posts

Thursday, 18 August 2016

New watch faces - Weather

I've been working on a couple of weather related watch faces, which focus primarily on providing a detailed forecast.

Both watch faces show the date and digital time in small at the top, with the current weather icon taking center stage.  Along the bottom is a full forecast for the week, showing the day, min/max temperatures, the forecast temperature and weather icon.  Also displayed are the sunrise and sunset times.

Weather Silver (download from Play store)

The first watch face has sleek silver weather icons...




Weather White (download from Play store)

The seconds watch face has flat white weather icons...




Both of these can be downloaded from the Play store (see links above).

View all my watch faces on the Play Store.

Thursday, 24 December 2015

This week's watchface - Metallic-4

Whilst I'm not a big fan of the name, I'm really enjoying this watchface at the moment, and have been for a couple of weeks now.  It's called the Metallic 4 (4 Colors- And 4 Dials) by bmg1001, and it looks like this...


As you can see from the preview, this is primarily an analogue watch, but with many additional features, including the digital time and the date displayed neatly at the top.  I've never seen a design quite like this, but I really like the symmetry of it.

The watchface has a number of different tap actions as well.  If you tap the digital date then it switches between 12 hour and 24 hour clocks - personally I prefer the 12 hour clock.

The top dial displays the weather, based on your WatchMaker settings (°C or °F, for example) and tapping the dial will refresh manually.

The right dial displays your watch's battery level as a percentage.  If you tap this dial it will toggle to the phone's battery level (which shows a "P" in the dial) and then tap again to get back to the watch's battery level.

The bottom dial displays the current day of the week.  If you tap this dial, it will toggle through the different colour options.  There's black, silver, red and blue - personally I prefer the silver one at the moment, also I've also been using black.

The left dial displays your current step count, as a percentage of your daily target.  If you tap this dial it will take you into the step count app, which for me is Google Fit, with a chart of recent days.

Overall I think this is a very stylish design, with plenty of functionality, but without overcrowding the screen with a complicated array of numbers.  I can see myself settling on this one for a while.

Monday, 16 February 2015

WatchMaker - highly configurable

There's loads of great default functionality in WatchMaker, stuff that can be easily added in to your watch.  Basically it works in layers, so you add a background image, and then say the hour/minute markers round the edge, then the numbers, then the hands, etc., building it up as you go.  You can reorder the layers, duplicate them, delete them, etc.  It's really easy to do, and very intuitive.

When you click the big plus icon to add a new layer, you get the following types...

  • Text
  • Curved text
  • Watch background
  • Shape
  • Numbers
  • Hour+minute markers
  • Freeform markers
  • Watch hands
  • Image
  • Animated GIF
  • Date
  • Time
  • Weather
  • Moon phase
  • Battery
  • Compass
  • Wifi signal
  • Calendar
  • Countdown
  • Stopwatch
  • Expression

They are all very customisable, with the ability to reference many different tags.  For example, just for time you've got so many options (using 18:49 as the example time)...
  • {dh} - Hour in the day (1-12) - 6
  • {dh11} - Hour in the day (0-11) - 6
  • {dh24} - Hour in the day (1-24) - 18
  • {dh23} - Hour in the day (0-23) - 18
  • {dht} - Hour in day text (1-12) - six
  • {dh24t} - Hour in day text (1-24) - eighteen
  • {dhz} - Hour in day (1-12) (with leading zero) - 06
  • {dh11z} - Hour in day (0-11) (with leading zero) - 06
  • {dh24z} - Hour in day (1-24) (with leading zero) - 18
  • {dh23z} - Hour in day (0-23) (with leading zero) - 18
  • and 29 other tags!  Just for time!!

As you can see, there are just so many options, you can choose whatever you want.  

And if you can't find what you're after, check out the Feature Requests - this allows you to search for features that others have requested, and vote on the ones you like, as well as adding your own, for others to vote on.  You can vote on as many as you want, so please feel free to vote on all the stuff that I want :)

Next I want to talk about the conditionality that is simple and yet so powerful.