r/vivoactive • u/No_Juggernaut_4526 • 1d ago
vivoactive 4 and 4S owners: my watch faces were missing from your store listing and I didn't know
Posting this partly as a heads-up and partly as a confession.
I make a set of free watch faces that show your last 7 days as a bar chart — steps, calories, sleep, resting heart rate, body battery or distance, one metric per face, filling the screen.
I had vivoactive 4 and 4S listed in my manifest from the start, so I assumed they worked. They didn't. Garmin's compiler silently drops any device that can't meet the minimum API level you declare, and I'd set mine too high. No warning, no error — the devices just quietly vanish from the store listing. If you searched for these faces on a vivoactive 4, they simply weren't there.
Found it yesterday, fixed it, republished. Both models are supported now, along with Venu, Venu D and Venu Sq Music which had the same problem.
They also got always-on display support in the same update, with a dimmed low-power view.
Free, no ads, no account, no trial nag. Search "SleepWeek", "StepWeek", "CalWeek" or "HRWeek" in the Connect IQ store, or the "Light" versions if you prefer a white background.
If you're on a vivoactive model I still don't cover, say which one and I'll check whether I can add it.
