Version 6.1
Pujie Watch Faces 6.1
Welcome to Pujie Watch Faces 6.1, we have updated a lot!
Please click the link below to read the news item about this big new release:
Pujie Watch Faces 6.1
Below a list of all the changes in version 6.1 of our application:
Full change log
- Easing of watch hands
- Easing of animations
- Stroke dashes
- SVG Import
- SVG Path import
- Many improvements to the automation dialog with quick options for object variables
- Burn in protection shifting in ambient
- Color automation
- New Utility functions
- New Timer objects
- Layer masking
- Tap automation
- Improved tag updating and render speed
- The global object keeps state, allowing for tap automation and timers for instance
- And many new data tags: Day in month, day in year, total days in year, total days in month
Epoch millis, sun information (rise etc), moon information, wind-direction, wind-gust, pressure, snow-volume, humidity, cloudiness, more battery stats, address information, objects for the timezones and 2 new animation tags
Version 6.0
Pujie Watch Faces 6.0
Welcome to Pujie Watch Faces 6.0, we have updated a lot!
Please click the link below to read the news item about this big new release:
Introducing: Pujie Watch Faces
Below a list of all the changes in version 6 of our application:
Full change log
- New logo!
- New name -> Pujie Watch Faces or short Pujie
- New domain -> pujie.io
- Completely redesigned style using Material You principles, the app adjust to your phones theme.
- Redesigned almost all dialogs to use the BottomSheet dialog structure
- The Add element dialog (+ button on Interactive or Ambient tab) has a new look and for the editable elements, it allows you to choose the source of the item you want to add (instead of auto choosing between cloud library and element library). This also allows you to add a new item directly. This item will not be saved to your library, but is directly attached to your watch face
- When pressing "To Watch" in the Local Library of the Cloud Library you will get a new dialog to pick where to send to
- Added Happy Heartbeats and Pujie Watch Faces to the Stock watch faces
Watch part designer
- Transform button (move, scale, rotate) -> popup always shows when you tap it, no need to long press
- Automate button moved down
- Curved Text
- Sweep Gradient
- Opacity for gradient colors
- Updated Grid dialog
- Updated Looks of control points in the editor
- Automation of text layer properties: Font size, Line height, Monospaced digits, Uppercase, Start angle (Curved), Radius offset (Curved), Flip direction
- Added quick buttons for automation code, allowing you to quickly access often used characters and add code snippets.
- The automation tags respond to tag type, to show the matching tags on top
- Updated style of color button, beter reflecting opacity, stroke, fill and shadows
- New Quick-start element -> Image
- Set as outline option for Shape layers
Data
- Added Health Connect as an option for the fit data (Steps and Heart rate currently). This is mainly used for the history and the data shown in the phone app.
With Health connect you can access data from Google Fit, Fitbit, Samsung Health and other fit apps.
- New manual location dialog
Settings
- More sub sections (General, Handling, Data, Libraries)
- Appbehavior -> Use dynamic theming
- Fit data -> Fit data provider (new addition of Health Connect)
- Weather data -> Location method (new Maps dialog, to pin a manual location)
- Backup -> Updated dialogs for the generate and import
- Troubleshooting -> New section
- Fixed saving backups to Google Drive or Dropbox (and all the available providers)
Cloud Library
- New onboarding UI (Sign out to see it)
- New Edit details dialog (pen icon on details page)
- New Edit profile dialog (pen icon on profile page)
- New looks of filter and sort dialogs
- Option to filter notifications
- Improved sorting of My Items section
Watch app
- New design of the config section, more in line with WearOS 3
- New design of the Loading message
- Better external data provider handling
- Better handling of fast updating external data providers (like Stopwatch)
- Option to enable hardware rendering on the watch (Watch config menu, Settings -> Rendering)
- Fixed heart rate updating when AOD is disabled
Version 5.1
UX updates
This update is mainly about improving the user experience. We changed the names of the libraries (Preset Library to Local Library & Watch part library to Element library), and will now refer to
watch faces instead of
presets.
To access the Cloud Library or the other 2 libraries, you don't need storage access anymore, this is optional. It is only required, if you want to see your locally stored items. Permissions are now requested when you actually want to see the
data instead of at the very beginning.
No more support for Wear OS 1.x
We also updated Pujie Black to use the new recommended engine for Wear OS watches. This means that with this release we also support for Wear OS 1.x watches. It has been a long time coming, and now after 8 years we have to move forward.
Full change log
- Improved external data provider selection on the watch
- Improved UX (no need for storage access to open the libraries)
- Improved Permission handling
- Renamed the libraries
- Added sorting by last modified to elements library and local library
- Fixed rectangular ticks
- Ended support for Wear OS 1.x
Version 5.0
Element Based
All parts are moved to one big list of elements. These elements consist of the previously available custom
elements (Live Texts & Complications), but also all the other parts, like the watch hands, graphics,
tickmarks & numbers, digital clocks, date labels, progress circles, indicators & tap targets.
Your older presets will automatically be converted to the new format.
Rectangular previews
You can now set the phone app to show Rectangular previews. This allows for more ease of use when designing for watches like the Oppo Watch and the Xiaomi Mi Watch.
Global variables
For the advanced users, you can now define global variables and functions in your custom elements (previously known as Live Texts). This makes it much easier to re-use code within your watch parts.
Icon Layer
To improve the range of possibilities, we added an Icon Layer to the watch part designer. For now it comes with a big set of Material Design Icons and Fluent Design Icons.
New tags
The set of tags which you can use in Custom Elements has been extended, including the often requested seconds and milliseconds.
Dark mode
Designing at night? Tweaking in the evening? Dark mode is here to protect your eyes. And luckily, at the same time, it makes the interface look pretty nice as well.
Better animation control
All elements now have better animation control. You can choose to animate to it's equivalent in the other view (Ambient vs Interactive), or you can set the position, scale and rotation of the target location yourself.
No more support for Tizen Watches (Gear S3, Gear Sport & the Galaxy Watches 2, 3 & Active)
Unfortunately, because we were removed from the Galaxy Store, Pujie Black is not compatible anymore with Tizen watches. The Tizen watch app cannot be updated, therefore it will not be possible to use presets created with version 5.0 with a Tizen watch.
Full change log
- Element based
- Updated interface
- Rectangular previews
- New tags, Seconds, Milliseconds, Last known altitude, Rain volume, Rain volume metric, Wind speed, Wind speed metric, Current weather forecast object, Hourly weather forecast object, Daily weather forecast object
- Global variables
- Icon Layer
- Dark mode
- Better animation control
- Asign tap actions to custom elements
- No more support for Tizen watches
Version 4.2.27
Version 4.2.26
Minor update
- Fix for watch faces not spanning fullscreen on the Oppo watch
Version 4.2.20
Minor update
- Improved nested automations
- Improved after scaling/translations/rotation of Custom Elements
- New method for background data updating
- Prepared for rectangular watches
- Fixed bugs
Version 4.2
Bug fixes
Main aim for this release was to fix some of the early issues on Tizen watches. These include AOD not working perfectly,
missing elements, deleting of saved presets. These should all be fixed now. We are still waiting for Samsung Health access.
OPR
The main interface now shows the
OPR of the ambient face. Tizen watches use a value called On Pixel Ratio (OPR) to determine if AOD
(Always on display aka ambient mode) is allowed. If the OPR is bigger than 15%, AOD is not allowed, and the Pujie Black ambient face will not show.
New data tags
We added a lot of new data tags for the Custom Elements:
locality, country, state, latitude, longitude,
last heartrate, max heartrate, min heartrate, average heartrate, max temperature, min temperature,
steps history, walking history, running history, cycling history
calendar events, full current event, full upcoming event
Multi color gradients
The watch part editor now supports multi color gradient!
Tasker variables
You can now send your Tasker variables to Pujie Black, so you can use them in the Live Text elements. This will allow you to add all kinds of
data to your watch faces.
Improved sharing
With the shutdown of FaceRepo.com we have lost a great place to discover Pujie Black presets. To compensate for that loss, this release includes
improved sharing. Using the share button now always includes preview images, this should work with sharing to any social network.
Full change log
- Fixed AOD on Galaxy Watches
- Fixed missing elements on Galaxy Watches
- Fixed tap drawer issues
- Added lots of new data tags
- Improved sharing
- Added OPR
- Added ambient brightness
Version 4.1
Tizen OS - Samsung Galaxy Watches
It is with great pride that we present the new version of Pujie Black. Starting version 4.1 Pujie Black is now available for
Samsung Galaxy Watches (besides every possible Wear OS device out there)!
The Tizen OS version has almost the exact same functionality as the Wear OS version and can be downloaded from the Galaxy Store for free. It requires authentication by the paid phone app, so there is currently no standalone version.
Tickmarks & numbers
The phone app has been updated with a new style tickmarks and numbers editor. It was specifically designed for ease of use and flexibility.
You can now add multiple layers of custom tickmarks and easily place them on their required positions on the watch face.
Have a look at the video below to see how it works.
Full change log
- New Tickmark and numbers section with custom elements
- Keep external configuration (Tasker) option (Settings-> Wear OS settings)
- Added protect status bar option (Shared -> Wear OS)
- App should rotate on tablets (still only profile)
- Added 4 new default presets, Blinds, Complications Nation, Complications Nation Dark & Flat Fat
Version 4.0.69
Minor update
- External complication provider fix
- Added degree symbol to weather provider
- Added Recently updated section to the Cloud Library Gallery
- Bug fixes
Version 4.0.67
Minor update
- Speed optimizations
- New navigation drawer UI
- New option to force English for watch elements (General section)
- Added loading screen on watch
Version 4.0
Image Layers
One of the most requested features was to be able to add images to your Pujie Black watch faces.
This is now possible by adding an image layer to your custom watch parts.
Automation
You can now automate some properties of your layers using JavaScript.
This will work in Live Texts and the new Custom Complications. Automation works on layer positioning, scaling and rotation, and
some of the layer specific properties like the properties of an arc layer and the properties of a text layer.
Custom Complications
Using the watch part editor you can create a custom complication style, which can display the data of an external complication provider (or one of the build-in data providers).
You define a style, which should work with several data configurations and afterwards you apply the data to it. To achieve this you can use
automation to create conditional visibilities, or position them
Cloud Library
And last, but certainly not least, an in-app Cloud Library. The Cloud Library allows you to
store and share your presets and watch parts with the other users of the library. You can like and comment on items and it automatically keeps your items synced, so it will always contain your latest versions.
To get access to the library you can start with a free trial, but after the trial it will require a paid subscription.
Full change log
- Image layers
- Automation using JavaScript
- New Custom Complication watch part
- New tags, week number, day of week, gmt offset and gmt offsets for the extra timezones
- Revamped settings UI
- You can now directly edit the watch parts inside a preset (called edit-in-place), this will only change the assigned watch part and not your library version
- Moved Live Text to Custom Elements section, this is where you add Live Texts and Complications
- Improved widget updating
- Faster app startup
- The dreaded nokia issue
Version 3.6
Watch part drawer
We worked hard to improve the watch part drawer, to make it easier to make intricate watch parts. New features include the option to
group layers and to
rotate layers. There are 2 new layer types,
Arc Layers and most importantly
Text Layers!
Font browser
For the Text Layers and all other text elements on the watch face you can make use of a huge set of
800+ new fonts (with courtesy of the Google Fonts system).
Live texts
To optimally make use of the new Text Layers, Pujie Black 3.6 introduces a new Watch Part called
Live Text. Live Texts are intended to show Text in a fancy way (think a Date box or a Flip Clock).
You can use all kinds of Tags to gather the data you want to show as text.
For instance you can show your fit statistics, weather conditions, but also just the time or the date.
Full change log
- Group layers
- Rotate layers
- New Text Layer and Arc Layer
- New watch part Live Text including Text Tag Browser
- Foreground Watch Part (drawn over all other elements)
- Horizontally and Vertically flip layers
- Copy and Paste layers between different watch parts
- Set the opacity of fills and strokes
- 800+ new fonts!
- New dynamic hours option for the tickmarks
- Faster Preset Library opening
- Improved app intro page
Version 3.5
Configuration on the watch
Pujie Black 3.5 is all about a new configuration menu on the watch! You can now,
save presets & select presets directly from the watch. When running Android Wear 2.0 you can also
import presets, directly from the web.
Android Wear 2.0 - Complications
Once you have received the Android Wear 2.0 update on your watch you can now replace the
indicators, the top label and the tapdrawer buttons in your preset with external complications. These external complications can show data from external data providers.
Android Wear 2.0 - Background
Like with the indicators, you can use the Android Wear 2.0 complication system to choose
an external data provider as the source for the background of the Interactive
and Ambient view. This will allow you to display images, you current media or whatever external data providers will think of!
Android Wear 2.0 - Standalone
Pujie Black can now be run as a standalone app on Android Wear 2.0. When running standalone, the app does it's own weather, calendar and fit data polling.
Using the new configuration menu it is possible to change some of the most important settings. This also means that you can now use Pujie Black
even when you have your watch connected to an iPhone or if your phone is turned off.
Lost features :(
The option
Enfore black and white in ambient has been removed. Because of the custom backgrounds and watch hands it is now impossible to determine which elements should be white and which elements should be black.
Full change log
- On watch configuration menu
- Preset library on the watch (Save and load presets)
- Change indicators on the watch
- Android Wear 2.0 - Add external complications as indicators
- Android Wear 2.0 - Add external complications as the tap drawer buttons
- Android Wear 2.0 - Choose an external source for the background
- Android Wear 2.0 - Import presets directly from the watch
- Android Wear 2.0 - Standalone mode (Customize, change settings)
- Much improved handling speed of complex backgrounds and watch hands
- Add copy of layer, not places it directly above the original
- New option to move layer to top or bottom
- Enforce black and white in ambient has been removed
- Option to disable anti aliasing in ambient, now only has effect on watches with a low bit ambient mode
- Freely move the digital clock and top label
- Optimizations & bug fixes
Version 3.4
Custom watch hands & background
Starting version 3.4 Pujie Black has it's own
vector drawing tool inside,
allowing you to draw
your own watch hands and backgrounds.
These watch hands and background will be fully vector, meaning they will be crisp at any
resolution. You can also share them with other users!
Free indicator size and position
You can now change the size and position of the indicator freely. Look in the Shared tab to
enable this feature.
Backups
A better backup method has been implement. From the settings you can send yourself a backup
file and import this on another device or just keep it as a backup (which will contain your
presets, watch hands and background).
Icon pack support
For the tap drawer you can now also assign icons from the icon packs you have
installed on your device.
Sharing
Sharing has been slightly changed too. To account for the increasingly long share codes.
When you share, the codes are uploaded to the cloud, which allows you to share with a much
shorter share code. This does mean that share codes are not really meant for backing up
any more, please use the backup mechanism for that.
Full change log
- Design your own watch hands and backgrounds
- Share your watch hands and backgrounds with others
- Free placement and sizing of indicators
- Improved backup mechanism
- Icon pack support for tap drawer
- Longer tick marks
- New date formats
- Optimizations & bug fixes
- Much shorter shared codes (for presets and watch parts) by storing them in the cloud
Version 3.3
Phone app UI
The UI went through a pretty big makeover, for looks and for ease of use. First of all,
the app now completely re-colors itself to match your preset.
This makes every preset fit in perfectly and well it's just looks nice :). This is accompanied by a Navigation Drawer to achieve a more Material app structure.
The preset library also got a big makeover, including a new search option to find your presets more easily. If you are so lucky to run Lollipop or Marshmallow, some of these elements will have some nice transitions attached to them.
Shortcuts
Another big thing is the addition of
Shortcuts for Tap Actions. Besides the current tap action you can now choose from all of the possible shortcuts on your phone (like direct Call, direct message etc).
This makes a lot more possible without the need for Tasker.
Full change log
- New Material UI. Color adjusts to your preset, to make it feel welcome :)
- Navigation drawer
- New UI for the preset library, see both the interactive and ambient face side by side
- Replaced customization section in separate tabs by view type
- Directly change the colors of the current palette
- Improved the UI of the color picker
- 'Shortcuts' as an option for the Tap Actions
- The option to hide the indicator background, indicator bed and the indicator lines
- 3 watch hands
- Options to change the weather metrics for wind (miles\hour) and rain volume (inches)
- Digital timezone indicators
- 3 new battery indicators
- Roman numerals for the hours
- Search in the preset library and alphabetically sorted presets
- Massive and Gigantic option for digital clock
- WiFi on/off/toggle Phone Actions
- Calendar selection separated by account
- Separate ambient battery level colors
- Memory issues
- FC's after app resume
Version 3.2
Custom Interactivity!
The most interactive Pujie Black ever! You can assign custom actions to a huge number of possible tap targets.
A new
Tap drawer, mini tap targets and all three indicator make up to 13 assignable tap targets! For all these tap targets you
can choose from:
- The Pujie views (Calendar, Fitness, Weather & Tapdrawer)
- Any installed watch or phone app
- Tasker tasks!
- Watch actions (volume up/down, voice search etc)
- Phone actions (play/pause music, volume controls etc)
Weather Forecast
There is now a new
Weather view with either a 5 day forecast or the forecast for the upcoming 12 hours.
Android M
For all you Android M users, Pujie Black now uses the new permission model, and is fully tested with Doze!
Tasker Tasks
You can now use
Tasker to change your current preset, and you can start any Tasker task directly from the watch face.
Full change log
- New weather forecast view!
- New tap drawer!
- New mini tap targets!
- Tasker integration
- Assign custom apps, tasker tasks or actions as tap actions
- Use tasker to change your preset
- Android M permission model
- Android M Doze compatibility
- Fix for manual location bugs
- Backup all your presets as links to email
- Improved preset library scrolling
- Assign indicator tap actions by location or by indicator type
- Two new watch hands (minority & minority filled)
- Two new presets
Version 3.1
Touch!
N.B. To fully take use of the new interactive watch face you will need the latest version of Android Wear, which is rolling out over the next few weeks. Hang tight for the update!
With the introduction of the
interactive watch faces API, Pujie Black now officially supports two extra views (Calendar view & Fit view).
- Tap the right indicator to see your calendar events.
- Tap the left indicator to see your fit statistics.
- Tap the center of these views to return to the watch face.
- Optionally you can set a touch area for going directly in to the Android Wear voice search (disabled by default)
You can change the position of these touch areas in the main settings (
).
Precision seekbars
To create your presets with more precision, you can now see and change the exact value of all settings which are manipulated using seekbars.
Full change log
- New fit view!
- Official touch support!
- Change the vertical position of the digital clock
- Change the vertical position of the top label
- Change the position of the indicators in ambient
- Change the radius of the calendar ring in interactive
- New indicator picker dialog!
- Improved UI of Settings layout.
- Animation on pressing the Send button
- Option to show the chin in the preview
- Removed donation system
- Fixed the battery notification when multiple watches are connected to the phone
- Value labels for the seekbars, and a dialog to change those values.
- New Default preset
Version 3.0
Pujie Black 3.0 is out. With a huge number of new stuff!
Data sending
To save battery, customization changes
are not send to the watch directly.
Use the send button (
) on the toolbar to update your watch.
Look in the main settings (
), if you prefer the old way.
Advanced mode
In advanced mode, there is a lot more freedom to choose the position and size of the watch face parts. Checking the box, automatically adds/removes options to/from the customization section.
Increase customization section
You can now increase the size of the customization section by sliding it upwards using the slidebar.
Full change log
- Updated the materials.
- Slide the customization section to create more space
- Advanced customization mode
- Improved UI for most elements
- Select touch area for the calendar view
- Auto battery saving option
- Numbers!
- Indicators in ambient mode!
- Gradients for analog circles
- Gradients for digital clock
- Square circles :S
- Hide outer progress circles on indicators
- Hide calendar center ring on interactive
- Round endings for analog circles
- Analog Circle thickness (Advanced)
- Analog Circle radius (Advanced)
- Watch hand radius (Advanced)
- Tickmark positioning (Advanced)
- Indicator positioning and sizing (Advanced)
- New watch and phone battery indicator icons
- Smooth Radial background
- 14 new fonts
- Tickmark position (Advanced)
- Upcoming 12 hours, option for calendar view
- Fixed Google Fit bug
- Fixed all day calendar event bug