Features

This section describes the most important features of the Outdoor App Professional in more detail. Here a short summary:

• Activity types
• Session features
• Alert features
• Power saving features
• LAP features
• Location information
• Altitude chart
• Screen lock feature
• Map and track features
• Workout summary

Activity types

Upon start of the Outdoor App Professional you can select among different activity types. Depending on your selection the session data will be catagorized.
Following activity types are available on all devices:

• Basketball
• Cycling
• Generic (also automatically chosen if user skipped activity type selection)
• Hiking
• Mountaineering
• Running
• Soccer
• Tennis
• Walking

Following activity types are available on devices with CIQ 3 and higher:

• Baseball
• Boxing
• E-Biking
• Golf
• Horse Riding
• Ice Skating
• Inline Skating

Session features

This section describes the workout session features which are very similar among all of our Garmin Connect IQ™ applications. The current workout session status is indicated by a specific sign. Following table provides an overview about all possible states of a workout session.

Start a workout session (NOT STARTED)

After starting the app the workout session status is "NOT STARTED" as the session has to be manually started by the user. This can be done by pressing the "START" button. This state is visualized by showing a blinking red boarder every two seconds as illustrates in following picture:

Workout session running (RUNNING)

After pressing the "START" button the first time after app start, the session status changes from "NOT STARTED" to "RUNNING". This is illustrated by a constant grey header/footer as shown in the following picture:

Auto-stop mode (AUTO-STOP)

Whenever the speed goes below the user-specific limit the app automatically enters the "AUTO-STOP" mode. When the speed goes above this limit, the app enters "RUNNING" mode again. This state is visualized by showing a blinking yellow boarder with a pause sign in the middle every two seconds as shown in following picture:

Manually paused session (PAUSED)

The user can manually pause the workout session at any time if the session status is in "RUNNING" or "AUTO-STOP" mode. This can be done by pressing the "START" button. A menu is shown where the user can select among following choices by either pressing the touch screen or by up/down or left/right buttons:

A stopped session is indicated by a blinking red boarder and pause sign in the middle of the screen as shown in following figure:

ALERT features

Already the FREE Version of Outdoor App Professional provides you basic ALERT features, e.g. to indicate the start and stop of the session recording.

Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:

In the PREMIUM version of the Outdoor App Professional following additional ALERT features are provided:

• Distance alert
• Heart rate alert

Distance alert feature

In order to use this feature, please configure the proper "ALERT1 mode" and "ALERT2 mode" according to following tables:

Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:

Heart rate alert feature

Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Forerunner® 235:

Power mode features

The user can choose one of the following four different power modes in order to reduce battery drain:
On devices with CIQ 1:

• No power mode (GPS is always on which consumes most power)
• Low power mode (GPS is on only 20% of the time which already reduces the power consumption and still provides good accuracy)
• Ultra-low power mode (GPS is on only 5% of the time which significantly reduces the power consumption and still provides acceptable accuracy)
• Maximum power mode (GPS is always off which does not provide any GPS tracking at all.)

On devices with CIQ 2 and higher:

• No power mode (Display update every second)
• Low power mode (Display update every 10 seconds)
• Ultra-low power mode (Display update every minute)
• Maximum power mode (Display off, update upon button press or alert)

LAP features

This app offers different LAP features. In order to use them, please configure the proper LAP mode and freely assign the LAP specific data fields in the 2-, 4- or 7-Field data pages according to your personal needs.

LAP-Related data fields Following LAP-related data fields are available which can be freely assigned via configuration in the PREMIUM Version to any data field of the 2-, 4- or 7-Field Data Pages:

Additional information Following additional LAP-feature related information is provided when a new LAP event occurs:

• LAP number
• LAP time
• LAP elevation
• LAP heart rate

Following figure illustrates how it looks on a Vivoactive® 3:

Note:
This configuration feature is only available for devices with CIQ 2 and higher!

Location information

The location information page shows you following content:

• Compass
• Current location coordinates in DMS (Degree, Minute, Seconds) format dddmmss: 38 27' 8"

Altitude chart

The altitude chart shows you the altitude information of your whole hike as it is self-adjusting regarding time. At the bottom of the chart you can see the current range in seconds, minutes or hours.
Above the chart you can find the very useful information about minimum and maximum altitude of your whole hike. Below the chart you can find the current altitude.

Screen lock feature

When the session is started, the screen lock feature can be activated by following sequence:

• Press "START" button.
• Scroll down until "Lock Screen" appears in the menu.
• Select "Lock Screen".

When the screen lock feature is active, only the "START" button will be handled anymore, all other buttons or touch screen inputs are ignored.

To disable the screen lock again, please perform following steps:

• Press "START" button.
• Scroll down until "Unlock Screen" appears in the menu.
• Select "Unlock Screen".

Map and track features

This application shows map information on Garmin devices with integrated map features. On all Garmin devices with CIQ 2 and higher it shows the current track as well as a downloaded track from dynamicWatch.

The current track is shown by enabling the map page in the app settings or by downloading a track from dynamicWatch via the watch menu entry "Navigation/Download Track".

When the map page is active following different modes are available which can be selected by pressing the "START" button:

• Current view
• Centers on current view and shows current position as blue marker and current track in black color.
• Optionally the downloaded track from dynamicWatch in red color.
• Zoom view
• Centers on current view and shows current position as blue marker and current track in black color.
• Optionally the downloaded track from dynamicWatch in red color.
• Allows zoom in and out via up and down buttons or respectively swipes up and down on devices with touch screen.
• Track view
• Shows the complete downloaded track from dynamicWatch in red color.
• Shows current position as blue marker if visible (means inside) in the current track.
• Browse view
• Allows different browse modes on devices where Garmin has build-in map features.

Following picture shows some of the offered modes:

Linking the app with dynamicWatch

Visit the dynamicWatch web site and sign up for a new account as illustrated in the figure below:

You can now create a new route for example by uploading a GPX file as shown in following figure:

After uploading the route, click on Back or the X icon to close the edit screen and make sure that this route is marked as your active route (the clock icon is black next to your active route) as shown below:

The Outdoor App Professional uses the Partner App Code system from dynamicWatch to download the routes. Before you can use this system, you need to enable this Partner App Code system. Click on Link your device and then click on Click to enable.

Copy the Partner Access Code to the clipboard

As last step, please add the 7-character partner access code to the app settings of the Outdoor App Professional.

If you later want to revoke access to your account from all partner apps, you can delete the PAC in Link Partner App in Settings.

For further details, please refer to the documentation of dynamicWatch

Workout summary

After saving the workout session a workout summary is shown on devices with CIQ2 and later with following information:

• Duration in the format m:ss, mm:ss, h:mm:ss or hh:mm:ss.
• Distance in km or mi.
• Average speed in km/h or mi/h.
• Average heart rate in bpm.
• Elevation gain in feet or meter.
• Elevation loss in feet or meter.
• Total number of steps.