TimeText

A time text is a formatted string representing the current time.

Introduced in Wear OS 4.

Syntax

<TimeText format="string" hourFormat="12 | 24 | SYNC_TO_DEVICE"
             align="START | CENTER | END" x="integer" y="integer"
             width="integer" height="integer" pivotX="float" pivotY="float"
             angle="float-degrees" alpha="integer"
             tintColor="argb-color | rgb-color" />

Attributes

The TimeText element has the following attributes:

format

A format string representing the time format.

This list includes several different formats for showing the time 9:01:05 AM:

  • hh:mm:ss renders as "09:01:05".
  • h:mm renders as "9:01"
  • ss renders as "05"
  • m renders as "1"
hourFormat

Whether to use 12- or 24-hour notation to display the time. Defaults to SYNC_TO_DEVICE, which applies the user's preference that's configured on the device.

align:

How to align the text within the bounding box. Defaults to "START".

x, y, width, height

A collection of integers that specify the element's size and position.

pivotX, pivotY

A two-dimensional pivot point about which the element rotates. Both values are floating-point numbers that are scaled to fit in the range $ [0, 1] $.

angle

A number of degrees, clockwise, that the element should be rotated about its pivot point.

alpha

Set the level of transparency that this element should have. A value of 0 indicates that the element should be completely transparent. A value of 255 indicates that the element should be completely opaque.

tintColor

Apply a tint color filter to the element. You must specify the color using either the ARGB format (#ff000000 = opaque black) or the RGB format (#000000 = black).

Inner elements

The TimeText element can contain the following inner elements:

Variant
Allows for changing attributes of this element when the Wear OS device is in ambient mode. More information is available in the Variant reference.
BitmapFont
A BitmapFont to use for rendering the time.
Font
A Font to use for rendering the time.