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This is a long post on exciting new features. We will cover:

• What you get with the new Theme Pack
• The new arc complications settings:
  • on the watch
  • on the phone
• Other improvements in release v10.18
• Some useful tips
• What you need to install, how to get them

 

Play Store

Arc Complication Pack
Play Store link:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dynalogix.bubblecloud.themepack14

 

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Bubble Cloud Wear OS Launcher / Watch Face
Play Store link:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dyna.logix.bookmarkbubbles

 

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Optional:

Notification Icons plugin + watch face complications
Play Store link:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dynalogix.bubblecloud.themepack11

What you get

Four versatile arc complications and six 1-click themes:

• Arc Theme Pack (#14) to be installed on phone and watch
• Arcs can be added to any Bubble Cloud watch face
  • Works with all existing 1-click themes
    • 1-4 rim-arcs around the watch face

      

      

      

    • 1-4 inner-arcs inside analog clock as a replacement for or in addition to the bubbles

      

      

  • You can add arcs to your custom themes too!
  • The included 6 themes in the pack also serve as examples of what is possible

• 3 “half+half split” digital themes:

  ShareTech (font: ShareTech Regular) 4 rim arcs in “Google” colors (adjustable) Date text field Space for 1 more text field and maximum 13 bubbles (ideally 3-7) Included: uniform theme bubble, character set for Text Clock in 10 languages
  LCD (font: Gemunu Libre Regular) 3 rim arcs in grey/red color (adjustable) Date text field Space for 1 more text field and maximum 13 bubbles (ideally 3-7) Included: light uniform theme bubble, character set for Text Clock in 10 languages
  DCL (font: GajrajOne Medium) 3 rim arcs in grey/blue color (adjustable) Date text field Space for 1 more text field and maximum 13 bubbles (ideally 3-7) Included: dark uniform theme bubble, character set for Text Clock in 10 languages

• 3 analog themes

  K2D12 (font: K2D Regular) 2 rim arcs in white/lime (adjustable) Space for 2 text fields No bubbles on watch face by default Can be converted into digital theme with same colors and font Included: matching uniform theme bubble, character set for Text Clock in 10 languages, Themed gauge and pointer
  Stint12 (font: Stint Ultra Condensed) 4 inner arcs in golden/bronze color (adjustable) Digital time text field (adjustable) Space for 1 more text field No bubbles on watch face by default Can be converted into digital theme with same colors and font Included: themed uniform bubble, character set for Text Clock in 10 languages, Themed gauge and pointer
  Shapec12 (font: Valera Round) Playful shapes for dial 2 rim arcs in blue/green color (adjustable) Space for 2 text fields and/or 0-18 bubbles (ideally 4) Can be converted into digital theme with same colors and font Included: uniform theme bubble, character set for Text Clock in 10 languages, Themed gauge and pointer

All 6 themes offer the same flexibility as any other Bubble Cloud 1-click theme:

• mix and match components with other themes
• adjust all theme colors to your heart’s desire
• add digital time to analog themes, seconds, AM/PM fields to digital themes, date or other information using text fields
• etc

Arc settings

On the watch

• New option in the “Add complication” menu to assign any range-type, short and long text complication

  

  

  

• New options in the “Favorite cloud settings…” screen

  

  • Single tap field selectors to access “Arc settings…” screen (see below)
  • tip: Long press to toggle them on/off!
• Arc/Text field option when applying custom themes, so we can selectively apply themes without the arcs, text fields, or just the text fields, arcs

  

  

• Single tap arcs on the watch face to activate the complication’s tap-action
• Long press the arcs for “Arc Settings…” screen
  1. Show/Hide arc + Assign complication to it
     (tip: Long press to show/hide all 4 arcs together!)
  2. Show/Hide arc in ambient mode
     (tip: Long press to toggle all 4 together!)
  3. Set active / ambient colors
     Secondary color is used for complication icon and range background (tip: long press palettes to copy/re-use colors!)
  4. Tap to swap colors between other arcs (swap again to undo)
     (tip: Long press to copy color from other arc, long press same arc again to undo copy)
     Shared settings for all arcs below:
  5. Width (also affects font size!)
  6. If you have fewer than 4 arcs enabled, you can choose to extend them to fill 360° (see details below)
  7. Toggle between rim arcs and inner arcs (see explanation above)
  8. Adjust the margin of inner arcs or how much the watch face is shrinked for rim arcs
  9. Shortcut to “Favorite Cloud settings…”

In the phone app

• Arc option when applying custom and pack themes
  
• New “Arc Complications” section
  

• you must long press the arcs on the watch to assign complications, this cannot be done from the companion app (Wear OS limitation)
• ✅ use the checkboxes to toggle each arc and its ambient visibility
• 🕓 Ambient colors are marked with the clock icon
  Secondary color is used for complication icon and range background (long press palettes to reuse colors)
• 🔁 Tap swap arrows to swap, long press them to copy colors between arcs (long press again to undo copy)
• Shared settings for all arcs: width (affects font size)
• ✅ If you have fewer than 4 arcs enabled, you can choose to extend them to fill 360°  (see details below)
• ✅ Toggle between rim arcs and inner arcs (see explanation above)
• Adjust the margin of inner arcs or how much the watch face is shrinked for rim arcs
• Restore defaults: reloads default arc colors  (no undo!)

Low power ambient mode

All 6 themes were designed with burn-in safety in mind. Even the photorealistic theme Stint12 includes a full-fledged ambient screen, but using outline components (outline hands are added in v4.11 of the Theme Pack):

 

Extend to fill 360°

If we have fewer than 4 arcs enabled, we can choose:

• to have gaps for missing arcs (default):

  

• alternatively, we can extend the remaining to fill 360°. Their starting angles change depending on which arcs are missing. Play around turning off various arcs to see how it affects their arrangement:
  

What else is new in v10.18

• New features:
  • Battery efficient range type watch battery complication (available to other watch faces too!) with watch symbol (including burn-in safe ambient mode variant). Less frequent update, slightly less accurate, but more battery friendly. Tap the complication for instant refresh, double tap to open Essential mode settings on TicWatch (coming in v10.18.5).
  • Battery efficient range type phone battery complication (available to other watch faces too!) with phone symbol (including burn-in safe ambient mode variant). Indicates if disconnected from phone for an extensive time (>20min). Tap for instant refresh, double tap for “Find my phone” functionality (rings your phone) if option is enabled for the Phone Battery bubble in the Wear Cloud Editor on the phone (you can still hide the phone battery bubble).
• Layouts:
  • New “half+half split” smart auto layout: activated automatically when clock bubble is vertically shifted beyond the midline (up or down) – all bubbles appear above or below.

    

    

    

  • “Full Clock Only” mode might be renamed to “No bubbles” in the future (still considering for v10.18.5)
  • We can add text fields (and arcs) to watch face in “Full Clock Only” (or “No bubbles”) mode
  • More bubbles can fit into the Split layout
• UI:
  • Tap top icon on any settings screen on the watch to go back to the previous screen (little indicator arrows were added)
  • Long press text field icons in the Favorite Cloud Settings… screen on the watch to quickly toggle text fields without visiting their settings screen

    

  • You can now long press to edit items near the edges of the inactive watch face (long press center for watch face selector!). Edit screen appears when you lift your finger after a long press
• Bug fixes and corrections
  • Indicator arrow positions were incorrect on rotated screen when using Full Color inactive mode.
    
  • The default theme pointer was not restored when applying a pack theme that did not include gauge+pointer
  • Custom theme applied Text Clock even when unselected
  • Watch face sometimes did not go into low power ambient mode
  • Further optimized watch face redraws for even better battery efficiency
  • Fixed the non-overlay mode clock bubble disappearing issue after exiting settings screens where we used preview

Tips

Here are some tips to bring the most out of the new arcs and layouts

• The new “ShareTech” theme works well with the Text Clock theme pack, (other 5 is not so good, but all 6 new themes come with complete characters sets enabling worded clock in 10 languages – sorry no cyrillic this in these)
  
• Both the new “Half+half”, and the analog themes work well with the notification icons plugin. The lower half of the split layout and the empty center of the analog face is useful to show a few or many notification icons and the peek card:

  

  

  

  

  

• You can add bubbles to the Stint12 theme if you move the arcs closer to the edge (but not all the way to still show the dial. Check out Joseph Rubin’s take on this theme:
  

Play Store

Arc Complication Pack
Play Store link:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dynalogix.bubblecloud.themepack14

 

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Bubble Cloud Wear OS Launcher / Watch Face
Play Store link:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dyna.logix.bookmarkbubbles

 

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Optional:

Notification Icons plugin + watch face complications
Play Store link:  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dynalogix.bubblecloud.themepack11

 

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Please test and report any issues

I give this version now into the hands of beta testers. You are the first to enjoy these new features, but in return for the early access I ask you to report any problems you find:

• crashes, hangs, regression issues (especially if they are reproducible)
• operation problems (unexpected behavior, mistakes)
• grammatical errors in text
• layout color / visibility / alignment problems (it helps if you include a screenshot)
• illogical or missing functionality
• further improvement suggestions

Thank you for your help!