Finally. Garmin moves the app store to a separate application
Now it's time to work on the quality of the application itself.
What a mobile app store for Garmin watches and cycling computers has so far been known to anyone who tried to download anything from it. And for those who do not know: he was - at least in the iOS version - buried in the Garmin Connect Mobile browser window , or at least it just gave the impression. Everything worked slowly, the navigation was clumsy, and the whole thing was not very readable even on devices with larger screens. Browsing and searching for anything was definitely not a pleasure - and that should be shopping.
Garmin moves the app store
From now on, however, this is the past. Ie. if someone for some reason liked the form of browsing the Connect IQ store offer - please, the appropriate tab still remains in Garmin Connect Mobile. But if anyone had enough of that, from now on he has a completely new, dedicated application available for Android and iOS .
Theoretically, another application, which is the next app store, this time additionally exclusively for the watch, sounds not very reasonable. In this case, however, it makes a lot of sense - the store with applications for Garmin equipment grows quite quickly, so the tool for viewing content should be definitely better than the browser closed in the main application Garmina.
And luckily Garmin managed to do it properly. This is not perhaps the Apple App Store, but the interface is clear and transparent, finding the right items as easy as checking the details of them or the subsequent installation. Everything works just as you would expect. Including nice, full-sized graphics and videos that approximate the operation of specific applications.
A standard, meaningful division into categories according to the types of applications - from the clock face, through application-applications, to data fields, widgets and music applications - has also been preserved. Of course, if someone wants to browse the software taking into account more general categories (eg weather, active lifestyle, tools, etc.) it also has the option. Although it would be nice if some of the recommended categories could be turned off, because for example. Funny watch dials are of minimal interest to me.
Now, it would be useful if the app for Garmin equipment ... look a little better. Sure, some people prefer to have additional data fields available instead of beautiful, beautifully animated applications known from competitive platforms. But why can not you have both? The more so that Garmin is probably the last of sports players who is fighting with smartwatches Samsung or Apple, and is not at all in a lost position.
Finally. Garmin moves the app store to a separate application
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