SmartWatch Design Fundamentals: WatchFace Design for Samsung Galaxy SmartWatches

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11. Watch Face Gyroscopic Design: Using the Gyroscope

Wallace Jackson¹ 

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Lompoc, CA, USA

 

In this eleventh chapter of the Smartwatch Design Fundamentals book, let’s get into designing what are called “Parallax” watch faces with gyroscopic or gyro-based watch face components, called “gyroscopes,” which was a recent feature added in V.1.5.2. These are used on watch faces that are customized, that is, those which use components dragged out of the GWD Components (Left Pane) ➤ Complications (Bottom Icon) ➤ Effects (Pop-out Menu) ➤ Gyro Effects (Autobahn | Cube | Gyro_Effect | Leveler | Light_Effect | Sub-Menus).

In this chapter, you will learn ...