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        Properties.setValue("selectedStationCode", code);  // FIXME: These should be in "Storage", not "Properties"

https://github.com/bain-syrowik/bc_tides/blob/f0f18a771be9cbad1441873a9f73f77c3c7a08ee/source/NearestStationMenuDelegate.mc#L17

Ideally once every 1-2 days, get new data for current station

Options:

1. Move Menu to long hold up on glance view, and use the Start button to cycle through stations
2. Use the Start button to cycle through stations, then get to Menu
3. Add a Menu option for which cached station data to display

        TideUtil.dataValid = false; // FIXME: only invalidate when we're actually changing the station!

https://github.com/bain-syrowik/bc_tides/blob/f0f18a771be9cbad1441873a9f73f77c3c7a08ee/source/NearestStationMenuDelegate.mc#L19

If the tide data is stale, it takes too long to run getHeightAtT() since we're iterating through all the old tide data every time.

Sadly it seems tricky to do this well...

There are a few restrictions with Data Fields. As I understand it:

1. They cannot communicate with an iOS/Android companion app
   1.1 More specifically, a mobile app cannot adjust the data field's Toybox.Properties (Otherwise the mobile app could just push data to a property on a regular basis...)
2. They can issue communication requests (as a background process), but I want this to work when I don't have my phone on me (going for a run)
3. They may be able to access persisted content (waypoints, etc), so it might be possible to get data in that way (but hacky) Just checked this - it is only available to apps, music, and widgets :(
4. Garmin also has "Complications" that would do exactly what we want if I wanted the tide data on a watch face... Which, honestly, would be pretty great too?

Options are as follows:

1. Create a new app that provides all the data fields I care about for running (basically re-build the "Run" activity app), that also does the web API requests to collect tides and cache that data.
2. Possibly use the System.Intent mechanism to launch a Run from the BCTides app and pass in valid tide data
   1.1 Is there a way to query this data from a data field???
3. Unsatisfying, but easiest: Keep BCTides as widget, and use hot keys during an activity to launch the watch face, and from there the widgets...

MIT?

List of all devices with screen size and sdk version support

Pare down to ones we want to support

https://tidesandcurrents.noaa.gov/api-helper/url-generator.html

More interesting visually?