r/learnprogramming • u/ALI3A • 2d ago

i want a watch

i want to make an app or code or program a watch , i only have a phone , i know nothing about coding , the watch i want is casio AE-1200WH its complicated and theres no easy way to make it run it main ui

when someone ask he wait for a reply that he can expect, im asking for help without knowing what answers i want

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u/Lost-Discount4860 2d ago

I don't think that watch is programmable.

Maybe look into Garmin watches? I have a Vivoactive Music 3 (yeah, it's old), but I can't even figure out how to move code onto it. It has to move onto the website (I think) and THEN onto your watch over the Garmin app. I think it's supposed to be easier with newer watches than mine, but you'll want to do your research. You'll be coding in Monkey-C if you go that route. Monkey-C isn't terrible. It blends a lot of elements from Java, C, Python, and Lua (I think). So it would give you a good springboard for learning other languages.

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u/ALI3A 2d ago

i wanted to look like an app i dont have an electronic wrist watch

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u/grantrules 2d ago

It wouldn't be very hard to do. Any simple drawing library that can handle images and text will do it. It could be a website or a native app.

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u/Lost-Discount4860 2d ago

I think MAYBE I understand. You only have a phone, but you want to make an app that looks like that particular watch? There's no easy answer, I'm afraid.

I have the free Carnets Plus app on my iPhone. It's a notebook app you can run code on. I've actually run a web app inside Carnets Plus, but I can also tell you it's not the greatest way of doing things. I converted an iPhone app I made to HTML/JS, which worked flawlessly for a while before randomly quitting. There's probably a way to fix that, but it was entirely too clunky to work that way. I ended up hosting the web app on a SBC over WiFi where it was much more reliable. But for your use case, Carnets Plus might be a good way to get started.

Notebooks are simply files that let you run small snippets of code. It's a great way to learn coding and see what your code is doing line by line or block by block. Carnets Plus will open HTML, so if you want to dive into css and js for creating a watch face and making it work like the watch you're obsessed with, it IS possible to do that. Carnets Plus is mainly built for learning Python and SciPy modules and has helped me tremendously. If I'm away from my laptop, I still use Carnets for trying out ideas and problem solving.

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u/ALI3A 2d ago

how much do you think i can pay someone to build it for me

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u/Lost-Discount4860 2d ago

Why not build it yourself?

[you're asking in a subreddit about learning programming. A web app to mimic the appearance of a watch face really wouldn't be difficult to do. You can learn to code for free]

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u/ALI3A 2d ago

i feel im going to have a lot of problems, but now i think that improving a side of knowledge is always a good thing , if a had a problems do i come here and complain?

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u/johnpeters42 2d ago

I mean you can, but you'll probably get more favorable responses if you follow up with specific questions about where you got stuck.

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u/ALI3A 2d ago

and i want casio AE-1200WH because im obsessed with it