GLANCE DUAL SCREEN WATCH FACE

Description

Glance Dual Screen is an enhancement of the popular Glance Pro app. Unique feature of this app is an ability to setup 2 independent screens an switch between them with a flick of a wrist. In addition to that, there are a lot more features implemented in the Dual Screen - graphs, extra progress bars (see full list in the app description). All metrics are still "glanceable" as in all other "Glance" apps.

Q: Questions about Weather, Bars, Units, and more are covered in the FAQ shared by all Glance apps:
A: https://www.mobiledriveway.com/glance.html#faq

Q: I still have questions or suggestions...
A: I created a topic on Garmin Forum (use your Garmin email / password) to answer questions, gather feedback and suggestions. Please post your ideas there: https://forums.garmin.com/developer/connect-iq/f/showcase/279043/watchface-glance

Dual Screen feature explained

Here is what you need to do to enable Dual Screen:

• Enable second screen in the app settings. Choose metrics on the second screen and colors theme string. Colors on the second screen are controlled through the theme string ONLY.
• ️Garmin allows 3rd party watch face apps to receive user input only on watches with System 6 firmware and touchscreen (at the moment it is Fenix 7, Epix 2, Venu 2, and newer watches). Make sure your touchscreen is enabled in watch settings. Long press TIME to switch to the second screen.
• For apps without System 6 firmware and touchscreen. To switch between screens, the app captures rapid changes in watch's power mode caused by wrist gesture. To set it up, please enable wrist gestures in watch settings (it is not in the app settins).
• On AMOLED watches Always On Display (AOD) must be enabled - without it switching screens with gesture will not work. If you prefer to save battery and not use AOD, there is a new AOD option in the app settings - "L0: Blank Screen". You still need to enable AOD in the watch settings, but the app itself will keep the screen empty and do minimum processing (hence saving the battery close to what disabling AOD would).
  

To initiate the switch between screens:

• ️Wake up the watch by raising your wrist and twisting the watch towards your face. You must start your gesture with the watch in high power mode, otherwise app will not be able to capture it.
• ️Twist your wrist away from your face. Garmin captures it and puts the watch in low power mode. When you twist your wrist away, pause for a split second - give the system time to register it and switch to low power. You should see the display dimmed before you continue.
• Immediatelly twist the wrist back towards your face. Garmin wakes the watch up (to high power mode). The app captures the rapid change in states and switches between screens.
• On AMOLED display watches (like Epix), light button also switches the power mode, so you can use it to switch screens too. On watches with MIP displays the light button only controlls backlight and doesn't change the power mode, so it is not possible to use buttons for screen switch.
• The wrist gesture is not something I developed and can "fix" or change in any way. This is 100% Garmin functionality and I have no control over it. Currently that is the only way to get user input in a watch face app.
  

It is possible that screens will switch accidentally. If it happens more than you can tolerate, you can do the following:

• ️Set switch method to manual only (in app settings). You will see Switch option in Customize menu of the watch face.
• ️Set switch method to double wrist gesture (you have to do the gesture 2 times in a row).
• ️Enable automatic switch back to screen 1 in app settings.
• ️Disable second screen.
• ️When Garmin will allow user input to watch face apps, I'll add other options.

Here is a video demonstrating how the wrist gesture works:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TIFAli6Rp18