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Problem in running multiple sideload apps on Fitbit Ionic

‎02-07-2019 05:34

‎02-07-2019 05:34

Hi. I'm developing 3 apps for Ionic and when I run them locally as a sideload app on the watch, only one of them is shown.

1- How can I have all of them on the watch? 

2- The icon of the apps are sometimes loaded incorrectly. For example, if I run app A and B one after each other, the icon of app A is loaded instead of the one for app B. 

I'd appreciate that I receive the answer to both of my questions. 

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‎02-07-2019 06:10

‎02-07-2019 06:10

Have you done a restart to the device?

 

When I first sideload an app I have observed that sometimes the icon is not loaded and is just a black/empty icon.

 

But after the restart, the icons works and side-loading apps will continue to work.

I am not updating the icons.

 

I have 4 sideloaded apps and I have not observed any major issues

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‎02-07-2019 08:01

In response to adiroiban

‎02-07-2019 08:01

The thing is, when I run app A and then app B, the app A is removed and app B is displayed. So, at the same time I can only see the latest run app on my smartwatch. But I want to see all of my apps as they do different things. 

In the first step, I copied app B project from app A and then I modified the files including the name of the app in the package.json. But I do not understand why fitbit only show one app at a time... is there any specific setting to this issue that I should do?

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‎02-07-2019 08:29

In response to pegetive

‎02-07-2019 08:29

Well... I wanted to ask this in the first place... but I thought that is common sense.

 

Do you have different fitbit.appUUID inside package.json ?

Each application needs to have different UUID ... second U stands for unique 🙂

 

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‎02-07-2019 08:32

In response to adiroiban

‎02-07-2019 08:32

I checked and all of the UUIDs are the same! 

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‎02-07-2019 08:35

In response to pegetive

‎02-07-2019 08:35

Use unique ID for each app and see if it works.

 

You can get an UUID v4 from https://www.uuidgenerator.net/

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‎02-07-2019 08:37

In response to adiroiban

‎02-07-2019 08:37

How can change UUID in Fitbit Studio?

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‎02-07-2019 15:50

In response to pegetive

‎02-07-2019 15:50

I have used Fitbit Studio for a short time... but I have always created a new project and never overwritten the package.json file.

 

You were not supposed to copy/paste the whole package.json file.

 

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You can drag and drop the package.json file outside of the root folder (for example in app), then you can edit it like a normal text file... when you are done, move it back to root 🙂

 

 

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