A Watch is a Watch · Developing a Watch Face for the Garmin Forerunner 45S 

I’m glad to have helped. What are you working on?

It should be possible and you can learn more about it in the developer documentation at developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/overview/ I haven’t done it myself to give you more detailed directions…

> Thank you for the explanations! Thank you for watching. > Can you create a video on how to create a digital watch face? I’m not sure I understand. What part of the process would you like to see besides what I covered in this video?

Hmmm, sorry but I don’t know about that. The extent of my expertise is what I covered in the video: Creating a very simple watch face.

As far as I can tell Garmin watch faces have a privilege that third-party watch faces don’t have access to: updating every second at all times. For third-party watch faces, the watch detects if the person pulled up the watch (supposedly the person is looking at the watch) and lets the watch face update every second; otherwise third-party watch faces may only update the screen less often. In my watch face I work around this by only showing the “seconds” when in this special mode. You can see the code for how I detect the special mode and handle everything. I don’t know of any way to change this behavior and have third-party watch faces update every second at all times…

Not at all. I found the documentation and the development tools were good (they’re linked in the video description). Of course, the community is small, so if you run into issues there are few people to help you out. But if you give enough time and energy, I’m sure you can make it!

Yes. According to the documentation at developer.garmin.com/connect-iq/api-docs/Toybox/Time/Gregorian/Info.html#month-var, you may use FORMAT_MEDIUM instead of the FORMAT_SHORT that I use (github.com/leafac/AWatchIsAWatch/blob/master/source/AWatchIsAWatchView.mc#L27) and it should give you the month in the format you want. And worst-case scenario you can come up with a list like this (github.com/leafac/AWatchIsAWatch/blob/master/source/AWatchIsAWatchView.mc#L39) and have total control over how months show up. Good luck 😃

@@leafac Thank You.

Designing a Watch face is an equivalent to coding a program. The best way to start is trying to find videos like this, or other sources explaining how to do it (there should be documents available on Garmin web pages. Template are probability just basic, and you will have to write your own code to get desired results. Watch Faces on Garmin IQ store are already compiled so you can't change them. You would need original source code from their authors. I guess all Garmin watches supporting custom made Watch Faces are supported, so if there are custom Watch faces for SQ, they were done using this software.