App ideas - free of charge #6957
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Posted at 2022-11-09 by Hank Watchface: for two. We had this with the pebble. It shows just the current time 2x in large but the top half of the screen is turned 180° so a friend can also read the time. Posted at 2022-11-10 by Serj Hey! Nice topic =) Here: There are similar applications, but there you need to mark and select waypoints yourself: GPS Navigation, Waypointer Moto, Way Pointer. Posted at 2022-11-10 by @thyttan @hank Sympatico! @serj Thanks! Fun idea! Edit: Added a couple ideas to the opening post. Posted at 2022-11-11 by Fteacher
Posted at 2022-11-11 by @gfwilliams Nice idea for a post! I just added an analog clock widget for you :) Posted at 2022-11-11 by @thyttan Oh, thanks! :D Installed and favourited! Posted at 2022-11-15 by user140377 An application launcher with categories (tags), so for example the compass has the tags tool,outdoors". So to start compass you first go to the category tool or outdoors. Posted at 2022-11-15 by @thyttan Regarding 2. about heart rate zones: So adding an app or modifying an app with set intervals for different heart rate zones and the app says "take it easy!" or "work harder!" depending on in which zone you are and what zone you should be in? Or a slider showing where on the spectrum you are in that moment? Have you seen these apps: HeartZone, Workout HRM ? Posted at 2022-11-17 by @thyttan There's now a basic Seven minute workout app here. Posted at 2022-11-18 by @gfwilliams It's now merged into the app loader: https://espruino.github.io/BangleApps/?q=sevenmin Posted at 2022-11-18 by HughB @gfwilliams - installed the analog clock widget - only seeing it display when I am using settings. Have tried a variety of clocks. Does not seem to work. All my apps are up to date and am using latest firmware. Posted at 2022-11-18 by @thyttan For me it works, displayed when the widgets are shown in apps (e.g. Desktop Laucher, Torch) and I'm not on my clock face/app. Posted at 2022-11-21 by @gfwilliams
The whole point of the analog clock widget is that it displays only when you're in an app or launcher and not in the clock itself (because then you already have a clock shown). Is that the problem? Posted at 2022-11-23 by lauzon I got a bangle for one single reason: I wasn't able to find any other standalone watch that could input alarms for dated events with title/message. (Other watches show events from attached device's calendar - so not standalone, or allow to input text for alarms that can only be scheduled on a weekly basis, e.g. the WatchMinder. Doing a program on Android seemed too complicated, and battery life didn't seem that good, so Bangle looked promising.) So "sched" is already able to schedule that for us on the Bangle, but it needs the associated UI.
Posted at 2022-11-23 by HughB
I did not realise this was by design. I guess an option to display it when a clock was displayed would be a nice feature as well. Posted at 2022-11-23 by HughB Sounds great. I haven't used the alarm timer for a while but I see it has come a long way already. Posted at 2022-12-06 by fanoushs-punching-bag nm Posted at 2022-12-06 by fanoushs-punching-bag nm Posted at 2022-12-06 by @thyttan @user140377 The Tag Launcher exists since a couple of weeks ago, courtesy of nxdefiant! Fun to see some new ideas in the thread!
@andiohn Nice ideas, #3: Max/Min Charge settings would be most relevant to me! Posted at 2022-12-06 by fanoushs-punching-bag nm Posted at 2022-12-07 by @gfwilliams @andiohn as I understand it, the Home Assistant app adds a 'clock info', so if you have clocks that display them (eg BW Clock, Slope Clock ++) then when it's showing, tapping on it will perform some kind of Home Assistant function. That might be what you want, but if not a widget could be neat. The Quick Launch is a great idea - and while it doesn't exist currently, it could also be good as a clock_info
I'm afraid none of that is under software control, so there's nothing we can do to stop charging. With the proper charge controller in there I'm not sure that it's a huge problem keeping the Bangle on charge though. Posted at 2022-12-07 by fanoushs-punching-bag nm Posted at 2022-12-08 by PeerDavid This could help too: HomeAssistant exposes an api such that its easy for other apps or widgets to send custom triggers to home assistant: Posted at 2022-12-08 by Serj App?: Example: Posted at 2022-12-09 by @gfwilliams
Does it not already do that? You just have to enable "Text as Bitmaps" in the options. Posted at 2022-12-13 by Serj Looked for settings but couldn't find it. Can you please tell me where these options are in more detail? Posted at 2022-12-13 by @gfwilliams They're in Gadgetbridge itself - click the settings icon on the device's tab. It should all be documented in http://www.espruino.com/Gadgetbridge#extra-setup Posted at 2022-12-13 by Serj Aha, here's the point 🤔 :) Unfortunately, I can't use this feature because I have iOS. In theory, is it possible to convert messages as images at the watch level? Posted at 2022-12-13 by @gfwilliams
Well, effectively that is what the Bangle is already doing, it just doesn't have characters in the font for everything. In the But if you're asking whether we can put the whole of unicode into the Bangle, probably not. There are 150,000 characters so that's just too much storage needed. If we had a list of characters that were commonly used, we could maybe add the top 200 or so and create a script to store images for just those in the Bangle though. Posted at 2023-01-09 by @thyttan New Idea:
Posted at 2023-01-09 by myxor A timeline based UI with events from several sources (like Agenda) would be great! Posted at 2023-01-09 by user141569 I personally like using the "event" option for one-time reminders, and I delete them after. I'm thinking that adding a delete after expiration option just like the timers have would be a good idea, and I'm willing to attempt to implement it. To avoid duplicating work, is anyone else already doing that? Posted at 2023-01-09 by @thyttan I'm not doing that! ;) Maybe adding buttons when the event is triggered "Done!", which deletes the event, and "Postpone", which snoozes the event for an hour makes sense? Then it's easy to get rid of it directly if you want to, or still there if you need it again. (Sorry for breaking my own rule about doing dev talk elsewhere. Although I guess conceptual discussion in here makes sense :P) Posted at 2023-01-10 by lauzon I like the idea of deciding to delete the event or not when it occurs. We already have buttons "Snooze" and "Stop", maybe just adding a third button "Del", left of "Snooze", would do the job? Posted at 2023-01-20 by b3-4r Hey, a small feature idea: could the clock adjust widget keep track of whenever system time is corrected by GPS (auto) time and by how much to find out the current drift value more precisely than manually? Posted at 2023-01-23 by @gfwilliams Yes, that should be a pretty trivial thing to add if someone wanted to give it a go! Posted at 2023-04-06 by @thyttan I'm thinking about maybe doing a version of Tag Launcher based on Desktop Launcher. It could be introduced in one of three ways: as an update to Tag Launcher, as an option in Desktop Launcher or as a new app. Personally I lean towards an update to Tag Launcher. UI:
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Feedback very welcome. Also if someone else want to do this before I get to it, as always please go ahead! I'll leave an EDIT here if I start working on it. @jeffmer @nxdefiant @user140377 Posted at 2023-04-06 by jeffmer I think it would be a nice extension to consider tag groups as folder icons in the the desktop metaphor as you suggest. Entirely up to you as to which app you base it on. Posted at 2023-04-06 by @thyttan Ah, that could be cool yes. Thanks! Posted at 2023-04-06 by user140377 I'm not sure if I fully understand that. In taglauncher you first go to the category view and only after selecting a category it will show apps, would that change? Posted at 2023-04-06 by @thyttan Ok, so the main differences from the current Tag Launcher would be:
What I really like about Desktop Launcher is that it's easy to hit one of the four apps on a page. They are always in the same place and are large enough as to it not being easy to accidentally press the wrong one. Posted at 2023-04-06 by user140377 ok I think Desktop Launcher is closer to this from the appearance. Posted at 2023-05-01 by ga App idea: I think there is no "womens health calendar". The meaning and colors are totally up to you and its all wordless. You could even allow for different colors that mix, though you can have many schades on the Bangle to you could still have enoght to be usefull, and tge quantisation may eve n be a bonus here. Then the second idea is to pool the anonymiously, and share the result. You could, of course, do this with other dara too. I wonder what patterns energe abd if there are waves spreading in geolocation and tgat sort if thing. A similar idea to the calender is a simple counter app, where you can count things. Posted at 2023-05-02 by @gfwilliams Thanks! Good idea having a simple color-based calendar... Actually now I think about it, you could actually make it change the color theme of your Bangle depending on the day, so you had a super simple way of being notified without having to go into a calendar app (eg the background is light green so I have to put the bins out today). Counting would be neat too - maybe a swipe or something on the screen (from the clock) could log one count? Posted at 2023-05-02 by user140377 FYI: I'm currently planning to add holiday support to calendar . This basically will mark dates from calendar.holiday.json in the same color as weekends. Posted at 2023-05-08 by Rand__ I had an app idea that i wanted to put out - don't think its available yet at least I didn't find anything 100% matching. When going on hiking its a nice datapoint to know the total height one has managed to overcome that day. This could be a stand alone app or part of the activities in health tracking. (p.s. I don't really need it as I don't hike enough but wanted to present nevertheless since I think ppl might be interested in it:)) Posted at 2023-05-09 by @gfwilliams @Rand__ yes, that sounds like a really nice idea! I wonder if it makes sense as a clock_info, but I guess it would be a nice thing to be able to store even on a daily basis (especially if you lived somewhere hilly :) Posted at 2023-05-09 by Rand__ Potentially even aggregated over multiple days for a longer excursion... Posted at 2023-05-09 by @halemmerich https://espruino.github.io/BangleApps/?id=gpstrek tries to do this using the barometer, but i needs some work on filtering. Currently the values for up and down are to high. Posted at 2023-05-10 by bb5 As I yesterday find out about Cradle let me present:
Posted at 2023-05-10 by @gfwilliams Hi - yes, something like that would work I think... We do have a Posted at 2023-05-10 by bb5 This is great example for me to work with. Thanks ;) Posted at 2023-05-12 by stweedo Resistor calculator: Enter a resistance value in ohms and get a visual representation showing the color bands. Alternatively enter the colors and get a resistance value back. I'm picturing the resistance value on the top half of the screen and image on the bottom and show both. Attachments: Posted at 2023-07-23 by user140377 Just had an idea: A widget that displays the current date & time if the current app is not a clock. Its only two or three digits wide so it does not neet much space. It scrolls through the current date & time and shows two digits at a time, only when unlocked. Posted at 2023-07-23 by @thyttan Not exactly like your idea, but did you see Posted at 2023-07-23 by user140377 Yes, at least the digital one is too wide for my taste Posted at 2023-07-23 by @thyttan In Posted at 2023-07-23 by user140377 Well, maybe I'll complete that widget at sometime. Attachments: Posted at 2023-07-26 by @thyttan Transition animation app
Please comment on the feasibility of this and possible alternate solutions. Posted at 2023-07-26 by @halemmerich I expect it to be a bit slow but copying current screen content into buffer, showing that as static overlay and then just waiting until the load is done before sliding the overlay buffer away like the hidden widgets do could work. Of course that would only work for fastloaded apps since there is no easy way for keeping display contents over a normal load. This would mean only one full screen extra buffer and no switching buffers around without the app knowing. Posted at 2023-07-27 by Sir_Indy I nearly got a transition like this to work! Gordon helped me out with some suggestions, I'll see if I can dig out what I tried and make it work. Edit: It was in this thread, I'll have another crack at it, it nearly worked: https://forum.espruino.com/conversations/383148 Posted at 2023-07-27 by @thyttan Thanks both! Maybe
(well, 1 and 2 would also be executed virtually at the same time, we shouldn't wait for 1 to be "finished" before starting 2...) This would give an immediate visual feedback of scrolling the current app off screen. While letting the next app take the time it needs to draw behind it on the on-screen buffer. Should be a little bit more lightweight I would think. Thoughts? Posted at 2023-07-30 by LaserGrunt Not really and app idea but if we could have an app that allows us to control the watch form out Mac or PC sort of like how the flipper zero app works that would be sweet. Posted at 2023-07-31 by @gfwilliams Something like a load transition could be built into the firmware I guess - it feels like it might be the best way to do it as it could work in the background while the app was actually loading. Posted at 2023-08-17 by @halemmerich Idea: Implement loading tiles along a GPX track into Posted at 2023-08-18 by @gfwilliams That sounds like a neat addition! Chances are we'd want to add a second set of rendering code to the Posted at 2023-09-02 by HughB Was thinking Breakout would be a good game for the BJ2. I'm not thinking of doing it but thought I would put it out there. Posted at 2023-09-05 by @thyttan This is now partly implemented in Rebble Agenda:
Thanks to Sarah Alrøe! Posted at 2023-11-29 by fparri Very cool open source hiking app, working without ever relying on the internet and just using opendata and sensors/GPS. I guess a lot of the ideas implemented could be tranformed in Bangle JS apps, too :) https://kylecorry.com/Trail-Sense/ Posted at 2024-03-29 by Fteacher Using a smartwatch dedicated to runners gave me the idea of building a set of apps that would work hand in hand to provide a "unified experience" for runners. I describe it, in case someone would be happy to work on it. I may try, but it may start only next year, and take 6 to 12 months before I get any kind of close to a result !
Posted at 2024-04-12 by Michiel
I am working on a breakout game with multiple difficulty levels. Right now it has 16 levels with different speed and configurations of bricks. The game can be paused. At the moment I can only develop it on the BangleJS 1 watch, as I haven't got a BangleJS 2 watch. Attachments: Posted at 2024-04-15 by user157973 hi Posted at 2024-04-15 by @thyttan I don't know of anyone working on that right now. Posted at 2024-04-15 by user157973 thanks .is it possible technically? any limitation of os ? Posted at 2024-04-15 by @thyttan I have not really looked into it. Talking from an Android standpoint I believe that if the phone notification has a reply function then the bangle can use that. Posted at 2024-04-15 by @gfwilliams You'll need a nightly build of Gadgetbridge, but with that you can reply - I tested and got it working a few weeks ago. If the message received has There are keyboard apps already too - see https://banglejs.com/apps/?q=keyboard and 'read more'... so actually adding the ability to post a reply is only a few lines Posted at 2024-04-15 by user157973 thanks .i am not coder so i dont understand read more and reply:true, and notify part in the link you gave.if it was easy why no one make app ready to reply massage?it is very important to me like buy or not?(still can buy because more usefull apps then gtr 3 pro amazfit,i am bored ,want to change) Posted at 2024-04-15 by user157973 please look into it) will take more interest and will be real smartwatch Posted at 2024-04-15 by @thyttan
It's just a question of motivation and prioritizations - no one with the right combination of those has come along up till now 😉 Speaking for myself, I think it could be neat. But the times it would be more convenient than writing out the reply on my phone seems few to me 🙂 If you would like to give it a go @gfwilliams has made good tutorials for learning to make and modify apps. E.g. https://www.espruino.com/Bangle.js+Development. If you'd like to try I could chime in with pointers if you'd have questions 😇 Posted at 2024-04-16 by user157973 thanks for help ,i will look but in future i beleive someone will make this app Posted at 2024-06-30 by @thyttan @user157973 you're in luck! Someone is working on reply functionality: espruino/BangleApps#3473 Posted at 2024-07-01 by user157973 Thanks for letting me know, I'm really excited. I even went to the site to buy it, but I saw that it was not shipped to my country. I hope the shipping problems will be solved and I will sell GTR 3 Pro and buy Bangle JS 2. Posted at 2024-07-01 by @thyttan Have you seen the list of distributors? https://www.espruino.com/Order#banglejs2 Posted at 2024-07-02 by user157973 i will try to buy with links thanks Posted at 2024-07-02 by user157973 look like adafruit send only to my country . Posted at 2024-07-03 by @thyttan
Yes, the following indicates that you'll be able to write out replies directly on the watch with the keyboard you choose to install:
Posted at 2024-07-03 by user157973 i hope will be no problem later .great pebble alternative , i ordered bangle js 2 from adafruit thanks |
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Posted at 2022-11-09 by @thyttan
I'm starting this thread in the spirit of the Watchface Ideas conversation.
Maybe you have an idea you've been thinking about but don't know when you'll get to. That's the case for me!
So here are some apps I might create in the future - but where I'd be delighted if someone else beat me to it!
Note taking app integrating with google keep.
Work logger app - press buttons automatically logging when starting/ending work and pauses with help of date/time library. Exported as csv or some other format to computer.
7 minutes workout app. DONE -it's here.
Automatically adjusting workout planning app akin to whats tested here on "The running channel" on youtube. The app suggests the 'optimal' workout based on a variety of factors like sleep, previous workouts and other indicators of fitness. Warns you during workouts if you overdo it etc. If we're lucky there's a paper somewhere just waiting to be implemented. - DEVELOPMENT TALK.
Analog Clock Widget - the analog counterpart to Digital Clock Widget, somewhat in the style of the red back button or Close Button to launcher. - DONE, THANKS GORDON! It's here.
(HOW CAN I ADD A YOUTUBE LINK WITHOUT THE EMBEDDED PLAYER?)
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