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Last year I made a first version of the article that now appeared on the Garmin developer blog, jungles did not exist yet back then, so I was using resource overrides to solve the same problem. Nowadays I’d advise you to go for the jungle approach as it provides greater flexibility, yet this version of ...

Several 3rd party developers have developed tools to make your Connect IQ development easier. This page provides an overview of these tools. Name Description Bird’s IQ (Puffolino) the program checks a source text to analyze how variables and constants are used. This could be helpful for tuning a program (to use more local and class ...

Summary Simple datafield to accomodate a request by Susun. This field calculates the fat calories burned depending on heart rate zone & calories. The following defaults are configured: Z1: 9kcal burned = 1 gram of fat burned Z2: 80% fat Z3: 50% fat Z4: 20% fat Z5: 0% fat In the settings you can: opt ...

In the previous tutorials we learned how to do unit testing. We’re going to use that project as a starting base to add application properties on top, so you can use your project you made so far or download my project from github as a starting version. Application properties: Why? Application properties allow you to ...

What? The Calculated Field Connect IQ Data Field allows you to come up with your own simple calculation. Supported operations: + – * / ^ (power) Following variables are available: heartrate, cadence, power, altitude, averagecadence, averageheartrate, averagepower, averagespeed, calories, heading, locationaccuracy, speed, distance, elapsedtime, energyexpenditure, timerTime, totalascent, totaldescent, trainingeffect, maxcadence, maxheartrate, maxpower, maxspeed Download Download ...

The Connect IQ SDK itself contains a good set of examples (you find these in the samples directory when you download the latest sdk package). Connect IQ Tutorials (Learn Best Practices) If you want to learn to create Connect IQ programs then I would advise you to have a look at the available tutorials. Examples ...

Summary The Eat! Drink! Reminder! Data Field is a Garmin Connect IQ application which helps you to remember to drink and eat while you are doing your endurance training (long run, long ride, etc…) Installation Install the Data Field on your watch by clicking download in the Connect IQ storeConfigure your watch to use the ...

Review Video Summary Peter’s (Race) Pacer is a Garmin Connect IQ Data Field which resolves 2 issues for me when I’m running a race: Before the race starts I want to see the current time of the day (well actually I want to see, how long till the race starts?) When I pace races it ...

In the previous tutorials we learned how to set up our project to be able to do unit testing and how to run unit tests. To understand this article it’s rather essential that you’ve read the previous 2 articles, in case you didn’t read those articles yet I’d advise to go back and read it ...