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[surfboomerang]

I tried to create a SuuntoPlus app for having some notes on my watch which I can review during the activity. I got this working in the simulator and on my watch.

The notes are stored in an array and can be selected in the SuuntoPlus app with the up and down button.

For test purposes, I stored the notes in the data.json file:

{
    "notes": [
        "Some important things that you don't want to forget.",
        "Things to do when you arrive at a certain location.",
        "Any other note that is important to you."
    ]

}

I declared the notes array in the manifest

  "settings": [
    {"shownName": "Notes", "path": "notes", "type": "enum"}
  ]

If this app is published in the store, how are people entering their own notes? Is this handled correctly by using the type “enum”? Or do I need to declare a fixed set of notes as string and add them to the array in code?

Like this:

  "settings": [
    {"shownName": "Note1", "path": "notes.note1", "type": "string"},
    {"shownName": "Note2", "path": "notes.note2", "type": "string"},
    {"shownName": "Note3", "path": "notes.note3", "type": "string"},
    {"shownName": "Note4", "path": "notes.note4", "type": "string"},
   ...
  ]

[SuuntoPartnerTeam]

@surfboomerang
I did not test your exact code, but things at least work with the following inclusions:

manifest.json

  "settings": [
    {"shownName": "Note 1", "path": "note1", "type": "string"},
    {"shownName": "Note 2", "path": "note2", "type": "string"},
    {"shownName": "Note 3", "path": "note3", "type": "string"}
  ]

data.json

{
    "note1": "Some important things that you don't want to forget.",
    "note2": "Things to do when you arrive at a certain location.",
    "note3": "Any other note that is important to you."
}

Those show up in the iOS/Android app like this:

[surfboomerang]

@SuuntoPartnerTeam Thanks for testing. I thnk I can find a workaround for it.
Is it possible to test the Suunto App behavior as well before the app is published?

[SuuntoPartnerTeam]

@surfboomerang The simulator doesn’t yet have a working implementation of settings and while the store technically supports visibility-limited beta testing^, that option doesn’t seem to be generally available. However, once your submission is accepted, any updates should become available rapidly, which means you can quickly fix things.

^ I have sent an email about the state of beta testing to someone closer to these matters. We’ll see if they have anything to add