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 Math and String manipulation.

• Backup your faces before removing the app
• Copy Assets from one Watch Face to another
• Get rid of "OK Google"
• How to Deal with Apostrophes and Quotes in Strings
• Manipulating Calendar Information

• Event-Durations as Margin Markers

• Avoid Burn-In and deal with the screensaver
• Changing Color Dynamically
• Changing Color Through Tap Action
• Flashing or Alternating Text or Graphics
• Measuring and Alignment Help
• Realistically Moving Shadows
• Scrolling (Ticker) text without masks

• Analog Battery Meters
• Analog Temperature Meters

• Smoothly Move Analog Hands from Current Time to Zero (12:00) and Back

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

• Adding a "Feels Like" Temperature
• Calculating Heatindex
• Calculating Wind Chill
• Indicate Last Update Age
• Tomorrow's Day of the Week
• How to calculate Forecast days
• Calculating Time since last refresh

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

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