Features
This section describes the most important features of the Stopwatch App Professional in more detail. Here a short summary:
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.
| Session status | Visualization | Description |
|---|---|---|
| NOT STARTED | Blinking red border | Workout session (recording) was not started so far. This is the state after starting the app. Press the "START" button to start workout. |
| RUNNING | no special sign | Workout session (recording) is running. This is the case after you manually pressed the "START" button. |
| PAUSED | Blinking red stop sign | Workout session (recording) was manually paused. It can be resumed at any point in time by pressing the "START" button again. |
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:
Manually paused session (PAUSED)
The user can manually pause the workout session at any time if the session status is in "RUNNING" mode. This can be done by pressing the "START" button. When the stop watch is stopped, pressing "escape" shows a menu where the user can select among following choices by either pressing the touch screen or by up/down or left/right buttons:
| User selection | Description |
|---|---|
| Resume | Start or resume workout session |
| Pause | Pause workout session. This allows the user to navigate through the data pages. The workout session can be resumed again at any time by pressing "START" button and select "Resume". |
| Save and Exit | Save workout data and close the application. After synchronization with your watch or via Garmin Express Software the workout data will be uploaded to the Garmin cloud and will be visible via Garmin Connect. |
| Discard and Exit | Discard session data and close the application. Please note that all the collected workout data is lost! |
| Exit | Close the application without saving anything as recording is deactivated via app settings. |
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 Stopwatch 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:
Stop watch view
This shows the stop watch view consisting of two data pages:
- page 1: shows three user-configurable stop watch fields which can be configured via the user settings.
- page 2: shows the LAP/split history information.
Timer view
This view shows a count-down timer which can be configured on the device and which counts down. The last 5 seconds before expiring, the color changes to red and a vibration and tone is played each second.