Developer Hazma Sood today has shared his latest work: Custom watch faces on Apple Watch.
“Sood has shared the source code that he used to create the custom watch faces to GitHub,” Chance Miller reports for 9to5Mac.
“For those curious, Sood’s Apple Watch is running the watchOS 2.0 beta,” Miller reports. “The developer was able to completely integrate his custom watch faces into watchOS, allowing them to be seamlessly chosen from the first-party interface.”
After some haxx… Custom watch faces on Apple Watch!
Watch face source code is on GitHub:https://t.co/7ZvOz8nK34 pic.twitter.com/nQGJKlp6kt
— Hamza Sood (@hamzasood) August 18, 2015
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Here we go!
But why? Watch OS 2 will be out shortly anyway and no doubt there will be tons of watch face apps out for it soon.
As can always be said in this situation, why not?
It’s a geek exercise with only one face that looks like a POS. I’ll wait. 🙂
Did you actually watch the video? You who mentioned animated Disney characters? If not, watch the video.
Has Apple said they will support 3rd party watch face apps with Watch OS 2? Because they specifically said they would NOT support them with Watch OS 1. That’s one of the reasons I haven’t bought an Apple Watch.
That’s a really silly reason not to buy the Apple Watch.
Let’s put it this way: I have no reason whatsoever to buy an Apple Watch. Except as a– get this– a watch. Custom watch faces MIGHT give me a reason to buy one. As, you know, a watch. As is, none of the features I’ve seen so far have made me think twice about replacing the very nice $3,000 watch I have on my wrist right now.
That $3000 watch would be deemed pretty much useless compared to an Apple Watch. You should buy one.
There are already some faces you can customize and there are plenty more options coming with the new Watch OS.
Totally agree. But, actually, none of the Watch features have made me think twice about replacing the $40 watch I have on my wrist right now.
What’s so great about custom watch faces that you won’t buy an Watch without them?
Because I want a 24 hour analog watch face. It might, even, make the Watch at least _appear_ to be a timepiece, and not just a modular iPhone extension.
As I said above, nothing about the Apple Watch makes me want to buy it now. Custom watch faces might actually give me a reason to think about it.
Well I am SURE that will happen once they are also vetted and approved by Apple. Since apps to do so are not available until Watch OS 2, we will see. There are too many $$$ opportunities for fun faces to ignore. Imagine watch faces with Disney/Marvel characters alone. Luke Skywalker pointing out the time with light sabers, etc.. Heh.
I get that it was a proof of concept, but don’t let him near the watch face creation dept!
Cute face . . . for about 20 seconds. After that it becomes annoying which is why Apple would never create one of those.
The day of Apple third-party watch faces without hacking will come soon enough.
There’s an ad on this page for 10 people who used to be beautiful. I’m in this one!
You’ve had a tough week, judging from your posts. My advice is to buy a Apple Watch, a couple of bands and call me in the morning.
Now come on. Why can’t developers make watch faces. Apple could set up a rigorous approval process like they have with their iPhone and Mac apps. I bet their are some developers out there that could come up with some neat (and useful) watch faces (like me).
Can you imagine wading through all those submissions? Passing a subjective judgement on the merits of each one? You know Apple has actually pay people to do that sort of thing, right? They simply don’t want crap on the Watch, and they don’t want to deal with another approval process.
Pebble has always had this and it’s not as bad as you think it would be. There are hundreds and hundreds. It wasn’t that difficult to find one you would use.
It’s not the customer going through the faces to make a choice. I was Apple’s developers who approve or deny acceptance for 3rd party apps in the App Store. It’s paying those people to wade through what would likely be thousands of submissions, and making a judgement call on each of them.
Check out Emerald Chronometer by Emerald Sequoia on the iOS App Store. If Apple approved them for putting watch faces on the Apple Watch, I don’t see anyone arguing with that. Fine stuff.
Gorgeous stuff, yes. And yes, I would possibly consider a Watch if their faces/apps were available on it.
Apple needs to create and/or allow others to create more watch faces. I didn’t like most of the originals, and I am already bored with the ones I did like.
This seems like a simple, basic thing that should have been possible at launch.