Watch Face Studio Release Note

1. Common & Project Management

• Update Memory Usage Plugin.
• Update Clock Face Plugin.
• Add Package name & App label in Settings dialog for users' convenience.

2. Publish & Run

• Add Min SDK version info in Publish dialog.
• Add more device types in Run on Device dialog.

3. Edit & Properties

• Add Diagnosis in Menu bar.
• Support Multiple color picker with Gradient type.
• Add new tag, [FIRST_DAY_WEEK].

4. Support Watch Face Format version 2

• Support Weather tags & functions.
• Add Weather condition in Conditional line.
• Support Weather in Run window.
• Add Last updated(Weather), Hours and Days in Time Source of ICU date and time component.
• Add 'Sweep' of Movement Effect and 'Sync to device' of Update frequency in Second Hands Setting of Analog clock component.
• Support Ranged value complication with Color ramp.

5. Etc

• Fixed minor bugs and GUI improvements.

• Support Android Target SDK 33.

1. Common

• Support Memory Usage Plugin.

2. Edit & Properties

• Add Analog clock, Digital clock(HH:MM, HH:MM:SS, HH, MM, SS, Colon) and ICU date in Component menu.
• Add Outline property in Shape.
• Support capture types(Icon, Screenshot, Masked Screenshot) in Run Window Popup.
• Support Style Option ID in Customization Editor.
• Add Range value in Supported types of Small Box Complication slot.
• Support OpenType Font.
• Support Indonesia language in Run tab.

3. ETC

• Add to reduce battery consumption in ambient mode when using AnalogClock or HH:MM of DigitalClock components.
• Fixed font clip problem.
• Improve smoothness of animation feature.
• Fixed IS_DAYLIGHT_SAVING_TIME issue.
• Fixed complication data not visible issue.
• Fixed minor bugs and GUI improvements.

0. Common

• Support Plugin feature.

1. Project Management

• Add Plugins Tab in Preference dialog.

2. Edit & Properties

• Add Rounded Rectangle.
• Rename Animation component to Image Sequence.
• Rename Multimedia component to Animated GIF/Webp.
• Improve Tag Expression Searching.
• Add guide text for Version Code in Publish dialog.
• Add monospace fonts.
• Remove Step Goal slider in Run Tab.

3. ETC

• Fixed minor bugs and GUI improvements.

• Fixed bug that changes 100% opacity of a component based on tag values in AOD mode when the visibility attribute of a component is set to hide in Normal mode and show in AOD mode.
• Add the Image resource for "App Shortcut" provider in Run preview.

• Prevent jumping time problem on resume time.
• Handled thumbnail option of the Animation or Multimedia properly when visibility is changed.
• Handled the style name of the Customization editor added in multiple languages properly for language changes on the device.
• Fixed [SC_PER] tag to work correctly on the device.
• Removed unnecessary permission request on the device with Wear OS 3.x version.
• Fixed "ENOTEMPTY: directory not empty" error during publish.
• Fixed to hide all components in complication slot when provider is set to empty.
• Fixed UnLoop bug when frame of conditional line is unselected.
• Reorder supported types of circle complication slot on Camping sample project.
• Change to save screen capture image with 72 ppi instead of 25 ppi.
• Support Wireless debugging and update Connection guide.

0. Common

• Support watch faces for watch devices that run Wear OS targeting API level 30 and higher.
• Support watch face format of Wear OS.
• Support the user guide link in About menu.

1. Project Management

• Support thumbnail of watch face in case of circular crop off.

2. Edit & Properties

• Support complication slot way that suppport multi types in a slot.
• Support Text ID for localized text which is displayed on device such as Style name and used in Talkback case.
• Support to display current On-Pixel Ratio (OPR) in Run tab.
• Support to stop in first On-Pixel Ratio (OPR) error situation while analyzing.
• Removed lottie format for multimedia.
• Removed HR measurement including Tag expression, action and interval in Setting.
• Removed chin shape in Run Preview Window.

3. ETC

• Change version code policy. (WFS user allow the specific range 0~999,999)
• Support to choose build type(aab, apk, aab+apk) to reduce build time.
• Fixed minor issues.

• Fixed JavaScript error while opening Watch Face Studio.

1. Edit & Properties

• Add inactive bar state in Conditional line.
• Fixed style order issue in Customization editor.
• Fixed to enhance color chip quality in Customization editor.
• Fixed to convert from string type to number type before arithmetic comparison.
• Fixed to reset MSEC when user changes time with time slider.
• Fixed to hide all components in complication when provider is set to empty.
• Fixed to remove unwanted stroke outside of Run preview.
• Fixed to disable click event if media file path is undefined.
• Fixed to disable double click event on interaction icon in Customization editor.
• Fixed to update style information and element together in Customization editor.

2. Etc

• Fixed to update world clock properly in Tag expression.
• Fixed minor bugs and GUI improvements.

1. Project Management

• Add sample projects and change sample images.
• Improve My Workspace to display all project files in workspace.

2. Edit & Properties

• Support style set.
• Add 'Event' condition including unread notification and low battery in Conditional line.
• Add some conditions for unread notification and locale in Run tab.
• Add new Tag expression. (UNREAD_NC)
• Add "islamic-umalqura" in local calendar.
• Improve Theme color from single to multi color.
• Improve time zone / local calendar / language in Digital clock component and Tag expression.
• Improve style to import multiple resources by file selector.
• Improve Color picker to show current/new and recently used color.
• Improve performance when multiple Multimedia/Animation components are used in Timeline condition.

3. Etc

• Fixed build fail issue with characters not allowed in project name.
• Fixed "Run on device" to operate normally when connecting LAN cable between PC and wifi ap
• Fixed time update issue after changing time zone in AOD.
• Fixed wrong [AMPM_PO] result for ja_JP locale.
• Fixed to consider alpha value of index component in import gwd resource.
• Fixed to support horizontal scroll with shift + mouse wheel in Conditional line.

• Fixed animation lag issue.
• Fixed description of Tag expression asin(num).

• Fixed crash issue when attempting to build a project created in an older versions of Watch Face Studio 1.1.0.
• Fixed value conversion error of hands component imported from gwd.
• Fixed animation frame count error.
• Fixed numberFormat() error of Tag function.
• Fixed description of Tag function deg(num).

1. Project Management & Common

• Support starred project and sort option.
• Provide sample projects.
• Remove new project page.
• Add System theme mode in Preferences dialog.
• Add Canvas circular crop option in Project Setting dialog.

2. Component

• Add Multimedia style and Tap action.
• Add Watch Face Canvas property.

3. Edit & Properties

• Add new Tag expressions.
  • Functions for asin(num), acos(num), atan(num), deg(num), rad(num), pow(base, exponent)

4. Etc

• Improve build time.
• Fixed Digital Clock component to follow language setting in device.
• Fixed ICON of the complication to be updated well in device.
• Fixed Text with "Sync to Device" font setting to follow system font in device.
• Fixed complication date and time issue to be removed after emptying the complication slot.
• Temporarily disabled the feature that showing watch face after device boot with lock. It will be enabled again after platform upgrade.
• Support 'multiple instances' feature for new Wear OS version.

• Fixed preview image bug that hands component only shows up.

• Replaced all fonts provided by Text component.
• Fixed blank warning dialog issue after build.
• Fixed group ordering issue.
• Fixed jumping time issue on watch.
• Fixed group resize issue on watch.
• Deleted '3 digit' in the description of Tag [MON_S].
• Removed android.permission.QUERY_ALL_PACKAGES permission.
• Fixed tap animation lag when using multiple MASK elements on watch.
• Update Open Source license. (SIL Open Font License)

1. Common

• Provide Version Update notice.
• Support Dark theme for comfortable & relaxed use.
• Support color label in Layer.

2. Component

• Support Mask.
• Support Multimedia. (webp, agif, lottie)

3. Edit & Properties

• Improve Properties. (Bitmap font, Curved text, Progressbar)
• Improve Animation panel. (Loop times, Frame count)
• Support Trigger for Animation and Multimedia component.
• Support Bitmap font management in Setting.
• Support Image Appearance for Image.
• Support Loop, Copy, Paste in Conditional line.

4. Style

• Support Grid view.
• Support Reorder item.
• Increase the number of each item.

5. Etc

• Provide editor tutorial on Watch.
• Update Open Source license.

• Fixed known issue:
  • Editable complications that support various layouts, such as "Icon+Text" and "Title+Text" of Short Text Complication, display only one layout.

Known issue:

Editable complications that support various layouts, such as "Icon+Text" and "Title+Text" of Short Text Complication, display only one layout.

1.Build

• Use workspace folder to save build output.
• Provide previously used build information in Build dialog.

2. Edit & Properties

• Support functions in the tag expressions.
  • round(num), floor(num), ceil(num), sin(num), cos(num), tan(num), abs(num), clamp(num, min, max), numberFormat(form, num)
• Support multiple image selection in Add component.
• Change image max size to 2250(450*5) in Import image.
• Updated naming rule for Style.
• Fixed minor bugs.

3. Preview & Run

• TAP action shows visual touch feedback.
• Improved smoothness of sweep animation for second hand.
• Fixed HR to be measured even in devices without body-off sensor.

4. Terms of service

• Change the coverage of 'Watch Face' like 'for Android watch devices and Samsung mobile devices'.

1.Build

• Support APK build output for uploading watch faces to Galaxy Apps.
• Added logic to check valid characters for a package name. Package name can contain only alphanumeric characters and the underscore.
• Fixed crash issue when using non-ascii character for a project name.

2. Properties

• Removed number type in Index setting.
• Fixed undo issue on Dimension, Curved-Text in Properties.
• Added new tag expressions.
  • [TMZN_OFS_WITH_DST], [HR_MEASURE_RESULT]

3. Preview & Run

• Fixed tag expression issues.
  • [UTC_TS], [WEEK_IN_MONTH], [SC_PER], [DAY_OF_WEEK], [HR_IS_MEASURING]
• Fixed locale and timezone issues.
• Fixed theme color, angle position and gyro effect issues.
• Fixed opacity issue in ambient mode.
• Fixed transform tag issue in a group.
• Fixed complication data issue from watch device.
• Fixed bitmap font issue for custom string including zero.
• Improved for smoother animation.
• Improved power consumption in ambient mode.
• Fixed minor issues.

• Initial version