analog-simple

A configurable analog watch face for the Garmin Venu 4 (41mm), built with the Connect IQ SDK.

85% — green	45% — yellow	15% — red

The battery ring around the date box changes color with the remaining level. Shown with the default Sword hands (parallel blades with a transparent lume channel) at 60% color brightness.

Clear	Light rain	Heavy rain + cloud	Cloudy

The blue band hugs the bezel and deepens with rain; the grey lines float inward from the bezel and thicken with low/mid/high cloud cover. Shown with the Rounded Lume and Diamond hand styles.

Features

• Analog hour/minute/second hands with a choice of four hand styles: Classic, Sword (with a transparent lume inset), Diamond, and Rounded Lume (the default — a capsule shape with a hollow lume channel).
• Adjustable hand length (80-110%).
• 12 hour tick marks around the bezel (configurable color).
• An optional 12-hour rain-amount forecast drawn as a blue gradient band around the bezel (12 o'clock = soonest hour, clockwise); the band hugs the rim and deepens with that hour's precipitation in mm — nothing is drawn for dry hours.
• An optional cloud cover display: three grey gradient lines (low, mid, high altitude) floating inward from the bezel — higher cloud sits closer to the centre, and each line thickens with that layer's coverage. The line colour runs from white (thin/wispy) through grey, shifting toward a blue-grey storm tint only for hours where rain is forecast or likely.
• Both forecasts are fetched in the background from Open-Meteo (ECMWF model) and need the watch's location (or a manual lat/long override) plus a phone connection to refresh.
• A dark grey date box at the 3 o'clock position showing the day of month.
• A rounded-square progress ring around the date box that shows either your current Body Battery level or your Watch Battery level remaining (0-100%). The ring can either be a fixed color or automatically colored green/yellow/red based on the level, with an optional Colorblind Mode that switches to a red-green-safe red/amber/blue scale.
• A color brightness setting (100/80/60/40%) that mutes every drawn color — dimmer pixels also draw less power on the AMOLED display.
• Power-conscious rendering: the static layer (ticks, weather bands, battery ring) is drawn into an offscreen buffer and only rebuilt when it actually changes, so each tick of the second hand just redraws the hands. In always-on / low-power mode the second hand hides and the weather bands draw thinner to stay within the display's always-on power budget.

Project layout

• manifest.xml - app manifest (targets venu441mm).
• monkey.jungle - build configuration.
• source/AnalogSimpleApp.mc - application entry point.
• source/AnalogSimpleView.mc - watch face drawing logic.
• resources/settings/ - user-configurable properties (properties.xml) and the settings UI shown in Garmin Connect/Express (settings.xml).
• resources/strings/ - localized strings.
• resources/drawables/ - launcher icon.

Settings

All settings are configurable from the Garmin Connect or Garmin Express app after installing the watch face:

Setting	Description
Hand Style	Rounded Lume (default), Classic, Sword, or Diamond hand shapes
Hand Length	Short (80%) to Long (110%)
Show Second Hand	Toggle the second hand
Color Brightness	Mute all colors to 80/60/40% for a softer, lower-power face
Tick Mark Color	Color of the bezel hour ticks
Rain Forecast	Show the next 12 hours of rain amount as a blue gradient band around the bezel (Open-Meteo)
Cloud Cover	Show low/mid/high cloud cover as three grey gradient lines (Open-Meteo)
Cloud Color Ripple	Vary each cloud line's colour in waves along the ring instead of a flat tint (turn off if it trips Always-On Display)
Location Override	Force the weather location to a "latitude,longitude" pair instead of GPS
Date Color	Color of the day number
Battery Ring Source	Body Battery or Watch Battery
Color Ring By Level	Auto-color the ring green/yellow/red by level
Colorblind Mode	Use a red-green-safe red/amber/blue ring scale
Ring Color	Fixed ring color (used when "Color Ring By Level" is off)

Building

Requires the Connect IQ SDK and a developer key. From this directory:

monkeyc -f monkey.jungle -d venu441mm -o bin/analog-simple.prg -y developer_key

Then run it in the simulator:

connectiq
monkeydo bin/analog-simple.prg venu441mm