Universal Launcher [Ver. 3.x and above]

Many thanks for this update!!! This fixes notifications as well!!! Now watch displays complete notifications even without changing default dpi of 160!!!

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The updates are just getting better and better. I’m not always getting my Gmail notifications coming up with the full screen alerts. I will get the sounds and says no notification but if I open power shade or the notification panel it shows up therešŸ¤” also any time the watch face resets it doesn’t show any of the previous messages. They will be on the notification panel on power shade still but when you swipe left it’s says no notification anymore but they haven’t been cleared from notification panel.

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Yes, I have noticed same…

Curiously, if WM doesn’t work on these watches and the discussion was later cleared by Pablo, why is there a hot button (link) for WatchAwear in the header of the FAW page? Opening it indicates WM is needed as WA is it’s companion app. Looking further in, it specifically states which platform is needed in order to install their watch faces but ours isn’t it. So it leaves me to ask why it’s there? Am I missing something?

This is a partner forum that’s why it’s there.

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Roger, that. I suspected something to that effect based on the earlier thread conversation. I was just curious. Thanks Eric.

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Earlier they also had a section for our clockskins where you could download them directly from the webpage

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I have a disturbing behavior of UL in this watchface :

Link updated to fix a bug that doesn’t seem to change the behavior.

I use two sets of hotspots, one set is for color management and the second is for other stuff.

When I tap the over the gear icon at the top one set of hotspots is ejected from the screen while the other comes back on screen.

So when the gear icon is greyed no color change should be allowed only the two other hotspots, one for hands park and one to switch the border on or off.

In WM, on the phone it works fine.

On my Kospet Prime 2 with UL, not so much.
If I activate the colors settings hotspots and change colors it’s ok.
Then I switch to the other set of hotspots, the gear icon goes back to it’s grey state BUT I can still change the colors!

I found that, after switching to a set of hotspots I have to tap a place on the screen witch is free of hotspots, that triggers the hotspots visualization and then, I can use the set of hotspots!

I had a similar problem with other watchfaces where I had to tap a free zone before I could use the hotspots.
If I didn’t do that first the hotspots wouldn’t work…

I don’t think it’s easy to understand without trying it.
That’s why I provide the watchface.

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Interesting… :thinking:
Let’s see what @Eric_Crochemore says…

tap action are working based on the opacity value. If this value is -1, it means the tap will not be working, if opacity is different from -1, it will work. There should be a script that plays with opacity to change it depending on the layer you want to be active or not.
This is my current understanding of the feature. If you have another explanation, it’s welcome.

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The hotspots all have an opacity of 0.

To make the hotspots inactive I push them outside of the screen.
But UL seems to want a tap on a free zone to register the change in position of the hotspots.

I’ll try to use the -1 value (I never saw anyone use this in all the watchfaces I disected!) instead, it should do it.

UPDATE :
Just tried it on one hotspot, works fine, chief :+1:

Now I’ll try a little nap before beginning the conversion of all my hotspots!

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Done for my two last watchfaces, seems fine on the Prime 2.
Seems also ok on my Ticwatch C2.

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I have another strange behavior in UL on Prime 2 or Prime :

Curved text that shows nicely on one page but refuses to show on the second page if I was on the first page when I switched to this watchface :

Those are the real ones on WM :

But, if I switch to the second page and then change watchface to come back to this watchface, I get this :

This time the curved text on the second page shows correctly and the curved text on the first page is still here.

If I go back to page one again, switch watchface and come back the curved text on page one is still here but the curved text on page two has vanished!

The curved texts on page two have been duplicated from those on page one to eliminate odds…

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Please try this new beta 3.4.7, it should work.

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Seems to be Ok now!
Thanks.

But… I have still a strange behavior.
If I load the watchface from the fisrt page it’s ok, both on first and second page.

If I load the watchface from the second page the first page has several layers missing!
The black and red hours numbers are gone…

Also when I introduce a change in the watchface I have to reload it two times to get the change on the watch…

I think I didn’t have this problem before the update.

After building the third page I have to confirm the behavior.
Two reloads needed to get the changes.

If the reload is done from second or third page the first page doesn’t show the hours numbers.
If I reload from the first page both second and third pages are ok and the first page is Ok too.

And between two reloads of the watchface I have to reload another watchface if I want the changes to be shown…

I just tried on my Prime which has not been updated to 3.4.7 and the curved texts problem is still there but the new problem is not.

I’ve pretty much always had to reset the skin after changing a clock skin file or image

Thanks sir for regular updating the Universal Launcher. This one is the only one launcher on whole wesite for our Full android watches to support .watch face. Here again I request you to make it support for graph display.Thanks :pray:

Yes, I see the problem. I will correct it.
About the two reload, I will check.

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Sure, without UL the Android watches would be a sad landscape!

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BTW, I remember now that I almost never used hours, minutes & co from WM in UL because they used to disappear on the watch.
So I had to transform them in pictures in WM to fix the problem.
Don’t know if it’s relevant here though…

I’ve updated the 3.4.7 version above to correct the ring text issue.
About the reset, the last skin is memorized to have fast access. If you change it on disk, you have to change to another skin in UL to change that memory and go back to your new skin after. It’s only a problem for skin developers.
For text disappearing, i have no clue. If you have a skin that does that, i can take a look.