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... if you could swipe left / right on the watch and scroll through your custom watchfaces configurations?

This way you'd have everything in place according to the situation, like having a watchface for sports with counters and music controls, then with one swipe you put your watch in the office configuration with calendar and email, or in navigation mode for riding a motorcycle.

Any takers of such a task? :D

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hmm, well, i don't plan to change my watch face often, so switching in the SW2 app is enough for me

also, this would be something for Sony to implement...
 
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JarlSX said:
hmm, well, i don't plan to change my watch face often, so switching in the SW2 app is enough for me

also, this would be something for Sony to implement...
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Thank you for sharing your opinion.

On one side I tend to agree with you - in the end this is just a watch and a single watchface should suffice, provided you can squeeze in all your necessary widgets.

However, due to the recent developments in the custom widgets area I DO feel the need to have more than a single configuration available preferably through a simple gesture.

I wonder if this could be achieved by means of swipe or some sort of navigation widget or even a menu that would allow you to switch between your custom (not built-in) watchface configurations (3 would suffice)



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vrl13 said:
... if you could swipe left / right on the watch and scroll through your custom watchfaces configurations?

This way you'd have everything in place according to the situation, like having a watchface for sports with counters and music controls, then with one swipe you put your watch in the office configuration with calendar and email, or in navigation mode for riding a motorcycle.

Any takers of such a task? :D

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I couldn't agree with you more, can't believe Sony haven't implemented this! Surely they've thought of it?

Have you tried contacting them? Would be a simple implementation for them.
 
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I couldn't agree with you more, can't believe Sony haven't implemented this! Surely they've thought of it?

Have you tried contacting them? Would be a simple implementation for them.
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I would rather not turn my hopes to Sony - they did a great job with the updates but they take too long to move or respond to their users, if at all.

Rather than this being a firmware level functionality I thought it more in the terms of a "dynamic" shortcut application that would increment or decrement a slot number based on the swipe direction (left-/right+) and then trigger (after a very short timeout) the built in selector to display the corresponding watchface for the resulting slot #.

Of course, this app would have to run in the background to capture the swipes when the screen is on.

Alternatively, this could be achieved with 2 widgets - left/right - no swipe would then be necessary.


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vrl13 said:
I would rather not turn my hopes to Sony - they did a great job with the updates but they take too long to move or respond to their users, if at all.

Rather than this being a firmware level functionality I thought it more in the terms of a "dynamic" shortcut application that would increment or decrement a slot number based on the swipe direction (left-/right+) and then trigger (after a very short timeout) the built in selector to display the corresponding watchface for the resulting slot #.

Of course, this app would have to run in the background to capture the swipes when the screen is on.

Alternatively, this could be achieved with 2 widgets - left/right - no swipe would then be necessary.


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Nobody has hacked the on watch software as far as I know, so it would have to come from hacking the phone watch designer, I guess as you mention via watchface widgets. Asking manu0466 for thoughts would be a good place to start, as he's already hacked the software in some way.

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Nobody has hacked the on watch software as far as I know, so it would have to come from hacking the phone watch designer, I guess as you mention via watchface widgets. Asking manu0466 for thoughts would be a good place to start, as he's already hacked the software in some way.

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I'm sorry, but you got me wrong - I was talking about an app that would use the new widget capability of the watch, NOT about a hack of any sort.

Maybe someone who understands the limits of the Sony SDK could shed a light on this matter? :)

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vrl13 said:
I'm sorry, but you got me wrong - I was talking about an app that would use the new widget capability of the watch, NOT about a hack of any sort.

Maybe someone who understands the limits of the Sony SDK could shed a light on this matter? :)

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So you'd need widgets whose functionality and design can change dynamically.

While possible, I think that would be a complicated way of achieving the objective, considering the interaction with different apps by different developers.

There would have to be a middle layer added in, interacting with a watch face widget on one side and various apps on the other.

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    ... if you could swipe left / right on the watch and scroll through your custom watchfaces configurations?

    This way you'd have everything in place according to the situation, like having a watchface for sports with counters and music controls, then with one swipe you put your watch in the office configuration with calendar and email, or in navigation mode for riding a motorcycle.

    Any takers of such a task? :D

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    JarlSX
    hmm, well, i don't plan to change my watch face often, so switching in the SW2 app is enough for me

    also, this would be something for Sony to implement...
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    vrl13 said:
    ... if you could swipe left / right on the watch and scroll through your custom watchfaces configurations?

    This way you'd have everything in place according to the situation, like having a watchface for sports with counters and music controls, then with one swipe you put your watch in the office configuration with calendar and email, or in navigation mode for riding a motorcycle.

    Any takers of such a task? :D

    Sent from my Xperia V using Tapatalk
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    I couldn't agree with you more, can't believe Sony haven't implemented this! Surely they've thought of it?

    Have you tried contacting them? Would be a simple implementation for them.
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    vrl13 said:
    I'm sorry, but you got me wrong - I was talking about an app that would use the new widget capability of the watch, NOT about a hack of any sort.

    Maybe someone who understands the limits of the Sony SDK could shed a light on this matter? :)

    Sent from my Xperia V using Tapatalk
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    So you'd need widgets whose functionality and design can change dynamically.

    While possible, I think that would be a complicated way of achieving the objective, considering the interaction with different apps by different developers.

    There would have to be a middle layer added in, interacting with a watch face widget on one side and various apps on the other.

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    The Basilisk said:
    You don't need to open the smartwatch app on your phone to change the watch face, just unlock the watch and go into settings/watch face
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    The challenge would be to replace this action on the watch with a tap on a widget or, better yet, with a swipe gesture.

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