Android Wear Smartwatch Theme Development
Just like my traveler’s notebook calendar, these watch faces came to be out of my own frustration of not finding anything that appealed to me elsewhere.
Using a site called Facer.io, I designed the following watch faces for my own use, but I also released them for the general public. There was a bit of a learning curve when it came to creating these. Facer uses its own mathematical formulas and coding to animate things and change images in the designs.
All of my watch face designs can be found at https://www.facer.io/u/jencheryi .
My most popular face, with over 3,400 downloads, is called “Sweater Weather”. First, I gathered stock images of autumn in different types of weather and times of the day. Using these, I coded the face to show a different background image; which one depended on the time of day and current local weather.
I used the same coding to create a couple of similar watch faces. This one has a Halloween theme.
The mathematical formulas for “The Eye” were challenging to figure out. The watch face itself seems simple: it’s a picture of an eye, and the iris expands and contracts repeatedly. I ended up having to have several different sizes of “iris”, each with a cutout where the reflection is. I coded these to smoothly animate, so the viewer never knows there is more than one image involved.
