watch face that shows battery status for phone and watch?

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senectus

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I'm looking for a g watch face that at rest shows the battery status for both devices. ..
Had anyone seen that?
 

senectus

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New default watch face acquired! Thanks!


There is a frustrating flaw in the this face.. if I go for a run early in the morning and play music the card on the watchface takes up the bottom third of the screen, covering up the time and battery stats.

The only way to get around that is to stop playing music and close the card :(

Is designing watch faces hard? Is this something I could slap together in and after noon?
 

mapatton82

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There is a frustrating flaw in the this face.. if I go for a run early in the morning and play music the card on the watchface takes up the bottom third of the screen, covering up the time and battery stats.

The only way to get around that is to stop playing music and close the card :(

Is designing watch faces hard? Is this something I could slap together in and after noon?

It's probably not too difficult but you will still have the same problem. The watch APIs have not been officially released so right now the size of the notification card cannot be changed along with other things.
 

senectus

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It's probably not too difficult but you will still have the same problem. The watch APIs have not been officially released so right now the size of the notification card cannot be changed along with other things.

If I make a watch face that has the time/date and battery stats on the top half then the music card wont hide ****..
 

incredulous

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It's probably not too difficult but you will still have the same problem. The watch APIs have not been officially released so right now the size of the notification card cannot be changed along with other things.

Is this definitely the case?
I find with the stock faces that the music card when dimmed shows just the name of the song whereas on some custom faces the dimmed card shows the artists name as well.

I've seen the same with Hangouts notifications too - stock faces show just who its from but the custom faces show the first couple of lines of text as well.

The only thought is that Android Wear by default shows the bigger cards and the stock faces have been modified with the still secret API to only show 1 line.
 

mapatton82

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Is this definitely the case?
I find with the stock faces that the music card when dimmed shows just the name of the song whereas on some custom faces the dimmed card shows the artists name as well.

I've seen the same with Hangouts notifications too - stock faces show just who its from but the custom faces show the first couple of lines of text as well.

The only thought is that Android Wear by default shows the bigger cards and the stock faces have been modified with the still secret API to only show 1 line.

Thats what I meant to say. The custom faces the cards take up more space than some of the stock faces. When Google releases the new APIs then custom watch faces can control the size of the cards.
 

alex_is_the_1

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A good watch face for this is skymaster you need to sign up for the beta testing on Google+.

Sent from my Moto E
 

senectus

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Yeah I've got that one. I don't like the dim mode on it. I prefer the nice big numbers that are super easy to see in full day light

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supermamie

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There are plenty of faces that display this uding WatchMaker : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=slide.watchFrenzy
or Facer : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jeremysteckling.facerrel

Some examples :
http://facerepo.com/app/faces/details/dk-watch-face-carbon-leather-english-14b3102641f
dk-watch-face-carbon-leather-english-14b3102641f.png


http://facerepo.com/app/faces/details/simple-mode-14c9d7474e9
simple-mode-14c9d7474e9.png


http://facerepo.com/app/faces/details/material-weather-two-14d3eaff116
material-weather-two-14d3eaff116.png


You'll find thousand of others (some good, some ugly) there : http://facerepo.com/app/faces/?faceType=facer&faceType=watchmaker&shape=square&sortOrder=newest
 

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