How to read the complete Flipboard article on the watch?

[Jelinski]

Does anyone know how to read the complete flipboard article on my watch? I can only see part of the article. 

Moderator edit: updated subject for clarity

[MarreFitbit]

Welcome to the Fitbit Community @Jelinski! At the moment, the app does not show the full article on the watch. It will show a quick view/short description for each of the cover stories only. You can’t read the full article in the Fitbit app either. In the Fitbit app, users can tap on the gear icon and tap Select new category. This is to choose the type of news category (sports, running, health, etc.) that users wants to appear on the watch.

Hope this helps, looking forward to your response! 

[Jelinski]

Thanks for the info. So I take it by this response that it is not possible
to read the full article from your watch?

[MarreFitbit]

Anytime @Jelinski! For anything else you would like to see implemented in the future, consider visiting our Feature Suggestions board. This is a space where Community users can post features, ideas, and suggestions that they'd like to see in future Fitbit products, accessories, and software and top-voted suggestions get relayed to our product team for review. 

We're constantly striving to improve Fitbit products and services, and we very much appreciate all of the input we receive from our customers. 

Our product team looks forward to reading and incorporating your suggestions into future versions of Fitbit trackers and apps. 

Let me know if there's anything else I may assist you with.

[BittenByFbit]

Additionaly why there is an option to click Bookmark if it cannot be e.g. read on the mobile app?

[G1208]

Hi, is there a way to view the complete article off the Fitbit?

[MarreFitbit]

Hey there @G1208 and @BittenByFbit, thanks for jumping in here! There's no way to read the complete article off the Fitbit. And the Bookmark option is there for you to read the article later. 

As I've mentioned above, consider visiting our Feature Suggestions board. This is a space where Community users can post features, ideas, and suggestions that they'd like to see in future. 

Thanks for your understanding. I'll be around if you need further assistance! 

[G1208]

great, thank you for the suggestion.

[MarreFitbit]

You're welcome @G1208!  Hope to see you participating in the Community more often since I think it would be awesome for you to explore our Community. You can go ahead and log to any of the topics that might be of your interest in our Discussion boards. Feel free to comment and contribute with your knowledge and experience.

Have a nice day! 

[mtstaffa]

Hi. I agree with you all.

But I thought id share some of my experience. I work with the team that built the Asken Diet app on the app gallery for Ionic/Versa. ... and some of the stuff we learned from building our app likely explains some of the reasons behind why the Flipboard (and other news apps like Fitbit's own) are not as we'd expect them to be.

Our app is a diet advice app built for iOS/Android. The advice generates nutritional advice text. But when we made the app for the Ionic/Versa, we ran in to some technical limitations in the Ionic and more specifically the FitbitOS.

It cannot display long scrollable text.  The way text is shown on the Ionic/Versa, its considered "cards". So those cards can only show a few lines of text. I don't know why Fitbit software is doing it this way, but that is the limitation. So your/my frustration shouldn't be at Flipboard (imo), because it is likely they didn't want to build their app this way, its due to how the FitbitOS reads/displays text.  

Think of any other text you've seen on the Ionic/Versa, its never longer than a few lines.

[G1208]

Thank you, totally makes sense.

I really appreciate you taking the time to further explain the background
challenges with the Fitbit OS.

Love Flipboard! Keep up the creative work!

G

[MarreFitbit]

Hey there @mtstaffa! Thanks for sharing this information. 

I glad to hear that the information provided to you was helpful @G1208.  If you want to know more about the requirements for apps to be implemented for the Fitbit App Gallery, I'd recommend taking a look at the following link: https://dev.fitbit.com/getting-started/

You both have a nice day! 

[Rox_versa2]

Flipboard doesn’t update or show the news feed 

[katelynw092006]

I am wondering why the Flipboard app isn't working on my Fitbit Versa 2. Does anybody know how to fix it? It just constantly says Loading... Then below it it says Breath in, Breath. It just doesn't let me click on it.