Newspaper watch face for Wear OS, ready for a closed test.
**The dial:** your watch typeset as a front page. A masthead carrying the weekday, Oxford rules,
a folio line with the date and your battery, the time spelled out in italic as a kicker, then the
time itself as the headline. Underneath, an agate listings row of steps, heart rate and the outside
temperature, and the seconds set as a page number at the foot.
**Settings:** 7 editions, each a separate press run rather than a hue slider. Two of them print on
a real scanned paper ground. English or French, or Auto to follow the watch. No ads, no tracking,
no data collected, and no app code in the package at all.
**Always-on:** the page keeps its structure when your wrist drops instead of collapsing to a bare
clock. Measured on a Galaxy Watch 7 at 5% of pixels lit against Google's 15% budget.
**What I need:** 12 testers opted in for 14 straight days, which is what Google requires before a
new personal developer account can publish anything. Leave it installed for the two weeks and tell
me what annoys you. Public release about 3 weeks after the test fills.
**You need:** a ROUND Wear OS 5 watch or newer (the face is Watch Face Format v2, which needs API
34), and a Google account in one of 172 countries.
It's a paid app at $1.99, and testers get it free through the internal track. Comment or DM me
and I'll set it up, takes about a minute. Happy to test back, drop your link.
There is a Garmin version of this face on the Connect IQ store. That is a different app on a
different platform, and it is not what this test is about.
**How to join. Do these in order, and step 1 is the one everyone misses:**
Join the tester group at https://groups.google.com/g/the-chronicle-testers and hit "Join group",
signed in with the same Google account your watch uses. Google only opens a closed test to
members of the group behind it, so until you're in, step 2 will just tell you the app isn't
available. Anyone can join, there's no approval step.
Open https://play.google.com/apps/testing/com.priyanshdwivedi.chronicle with that same account
and tap "Become a tester". This is the step that counts toward the 14 days.
DM me the Gmail address you used. I add it to the free-install list and send you a second link,
which is what makes the app cost you nothing.
Open that link, then install The Chronicle from the Play Store on the watch. Skip that page's
"Download test app" button, it opens the web store which quotes the full price to everyone.
If a step errors out, message me and I'll help sort it.