05-29-2020 13:32
05-29-2020 13:32
I don't understand what types of images I can use. I have tried a million different jpgs and pngs. Sometimes they display and I can resize and reposition them. Sometimes they are full screen and I can't change it. Sometimes they don't show at all. I haven't found a pattern.
Any help is appreciated
thank you
05-29-2020 14:05
05-29-2020 14:05
@Rozeyt wrote:I don't understand what types of images I can use. I have tried a million different jpgs and pngs. Sometimes they display and I can resize and reposition them. Sometimes they are full screen and I can't change it. Sometimes they don't show at all. I haven't found a pattern.
Any help is appreciated
thank you
PNGs seem to work best as they are translated into a hardware accelerated format. Animated pngs don't seem to work.
I use an online media editor to resize pngs to the size the clockface will be using, and to change non-png image files to pngs.
Also, don't keep your work-in-progress (WIP) files in the resource directory, everything there gets download to the watch whether you use it or not.
05-29-2020 14:15
05-29-2020 14:15
It's best if you resize images to no larger than the size of the watch screen (in pixels), unless you're striving for a special effect. Even then, the allowable maximum size is very limited.
Don't try to resize them on the watch. Do it beforehand.
Don't try progressively-encoded JPGs.
PNGs should be 8-bits-per-channel RGB unless you're using greyscale colouring.