Types of Images

[Rozeyt]

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

[morningReign]

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@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

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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.

[Gondwana]

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.