AutoWear Some questions about floating icon

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  1. Waffel

    Waffel New Member

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    Hello I'm new here, so I have first to say a big THANK YOU to the developer of auto apps!

    I searched for a solution, to show some track info, of the current playing track, as an overlay on my watch (Sony Smartwatch 3) and fortunately found it with AutoWear and their Tasker plugin Floating Icon.
    So, now I generate (with Tasker), on the fly, some text images (my_track_info.png) and show them on my watch using floating icon plugin. As a benefit I assign them some gesture sth. like tap=Play/Pause, swipe left=skip next, swipe right=skip previous etc.
    The images has the following layout:
    -------------------------------------------------------------------
    Album<br>
    <big><b>Title</b></big><br>
    <big>Artist<big>
    --------------------------------------------------------------------

    This works quite well. But I also have some questions about this.
    1. Is there another (less geeky) way to achieve this, something like a overlay text widget plugin which I have overlooked?

    2. Since there are more then hundred such unique images, which were generated per day, I wonder, if they are properly deleted on the watch, or are cached forever there and pollute my storage?

    3. What would be more suitable, to send a delete command or a hide command, after I stopped playing music? I only noticed, there is a screen on event after icon was deleted and is created again, but not know what's going on, technically, in the background.

    4. Did I missed something, should I worry about something?

    I'm looking forward to your answers.
    Have a nice day.

    Waffel
     
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  2. joaomgcd

    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    Glad you enjoy the apps! :)

    1. No other way right now
    2. If you're using the same floating icon with the same id the images are overwritten using that ID as key.
    3. Deleting makes you not able to use it locally on the watch again. For example, you cannot use the "Command to show" if it's deleted because it won't exist anymore :)
    4. Not that I know of!
    Hope this helps! :)
     
  3. Waffel

    Waffel New Member

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    Okay, thank you for your quick reply.

    Sorry for this maybe silly question. But to be sure: with ID you mean the Name, which I can assign to the floating icon, sth. like "FloatingIcon", which is the default name of a floating icon, when it is created?
     
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    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    Oh yeah, I meant the name, sorry for the confusion!
     
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  5. Waffel

    Waffel New Member

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    Ah okay, thank you for clarification and great support at all!

    I'm going to purchase more auto apps in the future.
    Especially I'm interested in:
    AutoInput, to intercept the recall button of my carkit and put more usefully function on it.
    AutoNotification, to intercept notifications of some for me important apps and put them on my new created floating notification :)

    So, more questions incoming :)

    Have a nice day and keep up the amazing work.
     
  6. joaomgcd

    joaomgcd Administrator Staff Member

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    Thank you very much! :)
     

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