Man, these IQ apps sure are cool!
Posted: Tue Nov 15, 2022 8:04 am
I'm glad Garmin has this! Any ANT+ sensor that I can imagine and build hardware for or buy, like a blood sugar sensor, a tire pressure sensor, or even an RPM sensor, I can write an applet for that puts the results in a data field or in a widget or in a full-blown app. I could take an RPM sensor and write an app that gives back what gear the bike is in! Woot!
I can even write an app that doesn't use sensors, such as a game, a calculator, or a Chuck Norris Joke of the Day thing.
And getting these apps into the GPS is as simple as loading the app into the Garmin app store. When it is downloaded it is pushed to the GPS through Garmin Express! Consuming these IQ apps takes seconds!
Oh, shit. Sorry guys, wrong forum! I'm talking about what I can do on my cheap-as-chips $200 bicycle GPS, the lower end of the Garmin Edge series. I guess we can't do this stuff with the XT. Even though the XT has many, many more times the processing power of my wee bicycle GPS. Even though the IQ apps are really easy to write and really versatile.
GARMINNNNN! Damn you guys!
I can even write an app that doesn't use sensors, such as a game, a calculator, or a Chuck Norris Joke of the Day thing.
And getting these apps into the GPS is as simple as loading the app into the Garmin app store. When it is downloaded it is pushed to the GPS through Garmin Express! Consuming these IQ apps takes seconds!
Oh, shit. Sorry guys, wrong forum! I'm talking about what I can do on my cheap-as-chips $200 bicycle GPS, the lower end of the Garmin Edge series. I guess we can't do this stuff with the XT. Even though the XT has many, many more times the processing power of my wee bicycle GPS. Even though the IQ apps are really easy to write and really versatile.
GARMINNNNN! Damn you guys!