Is it possible on the next update to allow the thin text on the full display as well as the ambient? Looks much more modern.

Users must force a refresh by clicking the unlock now button again on a fresh install. This is bad design

Would you be open to adding an option for the clock to display Product Sans Light rather than an outline of Product Sans while the watch is in ambient mode?
I'm sure you have it bookmarked but here is a download of the font at weight 400:
https://fonts.gstatic.com/s/googlesans/v16/4UaGrENHsxJlGDuGo1OIlL3Owp4.woff2

Some users have commented on the gray of the info bar in ambient mode can be too dark to see.

Either provide an option to darken it in ambient (on by default) or consider making it not darken and just stay white

see here for an example: https://github.com/android/wear-os-samples/blob/master/WatchFace/Wearable/src/main/java/com/example/android/wearable/watchface/watchface/DigitalWatchFaceService.java

basically use SimpleDateFormat and just get the default locale. same with whether 24 hour mode should be used. evaluate removing those settings because it feels redundant when they are already managed by the OS

This should be at the top of the interface and super easy to see

Not sure what's up with this, but it seems like my watch has been showing the incorrect weather for awhile now. Honestly not sure if it's a recent change or if it was always like this and I just now noticed (only being using this watch face a few weeks).

Currently it seems like it says it's 85°F, night time, and partly cloudy. It's actually 67°F, day time, and partly cloudy.

I looked in Play store comments and here and did not find this as a request... so thought I'd put it in. Thanks. I really like the watch face.

I'm not sure if this is possible, but it'd be really awesome if there was an option to display Google Fit's "rings" around the outside of the watch face.

First of all, thank you a lot for the great watch face!

I've been enjoying Pixel Watch Face for a long time, but recently I was feeling the need for a 2nd (or even 3rd) timezone. I've started looking for a watch face with multi-timezone support, but haven't found a satisfying one, and also thought I'd be sad to leave Pixel Watch Face for that.

It would certainly accompany some design choices and compromises, as there would be more elements on the screen. But I imagine we could have have a setting to opt in for those, or even have the face respond to touches and show the time in the 2nd/3rd timezone in place of the primary time. There could be other options as well.

Would this be an idea you could consider adopting?
Thanks for reading.

https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/performance

as the title says. this bug needs to be fixed. probably will need to track down the issue using adb and a debug version of the application on a watch

• Thin text toggle on phone does not function
• Thin text is on by default when it should be off by default

Some users have expressed their desire for the watch face to not switch to an outlined ambient mode version and instead be the active version all the time. This is how the watch face was originally and should be an option

Is this perhaps interesting or not necessary?
https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/hardware-acceleration

okhttp is not as reliable as volley and switching would remove a source of error for #9

Should be displayed under the explanation for weather being disabled. When purchased, the toggles to enable temperature and weather icon showing will be made active. When not, these toggles will be grayed out and will point users to the explanation at the top

Lots of ANRs from this: "Broadcast of Intent { act=android.intent.action.TIME_TICK flg=0x50200014 (has extras) }".

This can be triggered by something blocking the UI thread for more than 5 seconds.

Note: onReceive() of a BroadcastReceiver runs in the main thread.

Sounds like the app is doing something big every once and awhile when the time ticks

Singletons break unit testing and are generally considered poor design

Hello! I really liked this watch face, but I found this bug while I was trying it out.

The weather option does not show at first if you just toggle the "Show the temperature" option, or any of the other temperature options, since the watchface doesn't have location permissions yet. It only requests this once you check the "Show the current weather as an icon" option.

It'd probably make more sense to request this permission as soon as the watchface is installed.

Watch:

• TicWatch Pro
• WearOS 2.6

Phone:

• Pixel 3
• Android 9

App Version: 1.5.5

After updating to the new version, the wear os icon looks broken, maybe some kind of anti aliasing problem? Also affects ambient mode.

In the "apps" category of the settings, the watch face has no app icon. Just the default Android one.

For this issue:

• Add app icon for watch face

Hi! Thanks for the great watch-face!
Could you please consider displaying WearOS logo an option?
Having only the data widgets looks better for me :)
The more advanced feature would be a toggle + custom logo upload of cause ;)

Show a pop up on the watch after updating to this version which prompts the user to open the phone app to re-enable weather. Never shows again after the user presses the continue button.

I can use a system provided complication to get the number of unread notifications.

I can then hide the system notification dot and implement mine somewhere where it fits

• finish implementing the in-app purchase in the phone app that allows you to support development by donating small amounts of money through Google Play Store billing

Cole,
I use the Wear OS on Google Pixel 3a
I can add watch faces on Moto 360 Sport.
I can access Play Store from watch.
Settings says Pixel Watch Face is installed but I am not seeing it.

$ adb -s 127.0.0.1:4444 shell pm -l | grep pixel
package:com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface
$ adb -s 127.0.0.1:4444 shell pm path com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface
package:/data/app/com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface-1/base.apk
package:/data/app/com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface-1/split_config.en.apk
package:/data/app/com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface-1/split_config.mdpi.apk

I am able to do developer ADB access and Bugreports

Package [com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface] (1817149):
userId=10038
pkg=Package{c17aa4e com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface}
codePath=/data/app/com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface-1
resourcePath=/data/app/com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface-1
legacyNativeLibraryDir=/data/app/com.corvettecole.pixelwatchface-1/lib

Feature request second hand not seconds digital text.

Here is screencap but disappears from choices on phone and requires making choice on watch settings.

Wrong Preview.

Battery Level too low on round screen with square image.

UPDATE:
Found the face on Pixel 3a in Wear OS choices under "P".

The date and weather text is shown with an outline in ambient mode to prevent/reduce burn-in.

The only issue is that this makes the text much more difficult to read.

Maybe a possible solution to this could either be to increase the font size slightly or replace the outlined text with dark grey solid text in ambient mode.

Full rewrite of the phone companion app is necessary. here are some vague ideas on what the new one will do differently:

• proper data separation as per android architecture components guidelines
• data binding for ui
• no hardcoded settings or stored values in the phone app, they load dynamically from the current settings etc stored on the watch face. this allows me to add settings to the watch without needing to update the companion app
• simplified user experience, with a few default optimized layouts provided upon first open and all settings available afterwards to customized as desired

This way users can change the scaling of things to match their preferences on their watch.

Could you please build and provide the direct APK files along with the Play Store links? Trying to avoid Google, but it's hard.

see relevant documentation here: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/issues

this may involve moving system indicators etc

When only the time is displayed in ambiant mode, it should be centered on the screen.

It will be great if battery indicator changes color when battery is depleting.
Like become red when 15% or with some steps like yellow at 20% and red at 10%.
IMHO it will be easier to guess the level at a glance.
Thanks a lot!

allow free trial so users can decide to purchase or not

I'd like to be able to change the color in ambient mode... instead of white, indigo blue would be less brilliant at night. Thanks for an update!

The weather icons (at least the cloud) have a solid interior in ambient mode which will cause excess burn-in on the watch.

Hey there

It would be amazing if you were able to take advantage of the co proccesor for your ambient mode. I would hope that would improve battery life on all of the newer devices.

There was a blog about it here

http://turndapage.com/2018/12/07/implementing-the-new-ambient-second-hand-for-wear-os-with-watch-face-decompositions/

Thanks

Nick

I really love the watch face but to use it as my daily face I need the seconds on the live screen. Is it possible to add it as an option?

Thanks!

Would be nice to have the option to add complications.
I currently have two in mind.

• Hearth Rate
• Google Fit progress

• Remove OpenWeatherMap weather API

• Create overall weather api class to allow for future usage of multiple weather APIs

• get worldwide METAR data and see if that is accurate enough (see here https://www.aviationweather.gov/help/webservice?page=metarjson)

• attempt to get the current weather using weather.gov api

• if it fails, fall back to using the other APIs and

  • hold one location fix per day in memory/storage, check if new location is over a threshold to detect major travel (use distanceTo). if so, set a flag and attempt to use weather.gov

• Get the weather forecast for as close to the current time as possible using https://api.met.no/ and passing in our coordinates, including altitude

• Switch to using the icons from met.no, dynamically retrieving them as needed and saving them once they have been retrieved so they don't have to be in the future (will reduce install size a ton too).

I do not yet know how to reproduce this consistently, but calling setActiveComplications(BATTERY_COMP_ID); fixes it.

activate Google assistant when clicking the WearOS icon

Allow user to change most settings in the configuration menu given to watch faces.

see here: https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/watch-faces/configuration

https://blog.darksky.net/dark-sky-has-a-new-home/

Since Apple are now taking over Dark Sky, they may close their API at the end of 2021.

Any chance you can add a setting for the watchface to never sleep; to always stay on full power mode?

I have the ticwatch pro and after a few seconds the watchface goes into a lower power outline mode that uses less pixels on my oled screen. I would prefer the watchface to stay pretty with that beautiful solid font you programmed in at all times even if it negatively affects my battery.

would be nice to have the option to dispaly heart rate on watch face

Since PixelWatchFace is using OpenWeatherMap to get weather data as default, how about adding up a feature where user can type in the coordinates as location to fetch the weather data

like these coordinates above

it would benefits the user that don't like to turn on the location permission(like me:P)

by the way, this is an excellent watchface, I love it so much, thanks for the hard work 😃