====== Tutorials and Recipes ======

This page lists various recipes to help you achieve awesome effects in Watchmaker. Many of these tips make use of advanced expressions in the [[:Lua]] scripting language. To better understand how these work, it is recommended to familiarize yourself with [[:lua]] and how it can be used for [[:lua#Math]] and [[:lua#String]] manipulation.

===== App Generic =====

  * [[backup|Backup your faces before removing the app]]
  * [[unzipit|Copy Assets from one Watch Face to another]]
  * [[okgoogle|Get rid of "OK Google"]]
  * [[quotesinstrings|How to Deal with Apostrophes and Quotes in Strings]]
  * [[calendarManip|Manipulating Calendar Information]]

===== Calendar =====

  * [[calendarmargin|Event-Durations as Margin Markers]]

===== Color and Display =====

  * [[burnprotection|Avoid Burn-In and deal with the screensaver]]
  * [[dynamiccolor|Changing Color Dynamically]]
  * [[tapcolor|Changing Color Through Tap Action]]
  * [[flashingtext|Flashing or Alternating Text or Graphics]]
  * [[measuretest|Measuring and Alignment Help]]
  * [[Realistically Moving Shadows]]
  * [[tickertext|Scrolling (Ticker) text without masks]]

===== Meters and Dials =====

  * [[batterymeters|Analog Battery Meters]]
  * [[tempmeters|Analog Temperature Meters]]

===== Motion and Animation =====

  * [[movehands|Smoothly Move Analog Hands from Current Time to Zero (12:00) and Back]]

===== Weather =====

Want to add some fancy weather info to your watch face. Here's how:

  * [[feelslike|Adding a "Feels Like" Temperature]]
  * [[heatindex|Calculating Heatindex]]
  * [[windchill|Calculating Wind Chill]]
  * [[weatherage|Indicate Last Update Age]]
  * [[Tomorrow's Day of the Week]]
  * [[Forecast Days|How to calculate Forecast days]]
  * [[refresh age|Calculating Time since last refresh]]


===== Uncategorized =====

  * You can find a lot of watchface tutorials at http://www.watchawear.com/watches/watch-tutorials.html

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