Name: Hiker DF
Rating: 4.6 (70 reviews)
Author: flocsy

If you like the app you can thank me by sending a beer: https://paypal.me/GavrielF and writing a positive review.

If the datafield didn't meet your expectations please contact me! Use the "App Support" link or write to the Developer Email and make sure that you include your email address so I can get back to you. Explain what you experienced, what you didn't like, what didn't work, what device you tried it on, and how you think I could improve it (in case it's not a bug, but something about how I designed the game). Useful feedback will help me fix the issue or improve the user experience. Feedback as a bad review will be ignored. If you can't install the datafield after you read the FAQ: https://flocsy.eu/garmin/hiker/ then please contact Garmin Support.

Hiker is a free data field for Garmin watches to provide stats for hike and walk activities. Built to provide more data in a more compact format than is typically available on data fields designed for runners (where too much information becomes impossible to digest at speed). Focused on data relevant to casual hiking / walking scenarios where step count, distance, pace, ascent and altitude are the predominant concerns rather than trail running where bearing etc. are more relevant.

Currently displays (See https://flocsy.eu/garmin/hiker/#features):

- Clock time
- Average pace or speed for the current activity (controlled by settings)
- Total distance for the current activity
- Current pace or speed (or rolling 5/10/30/60 second average by changing settings)
- Total time for current activity
- Current heart rate (or rolling 5/10/30/60 second average by changing settings)
- Current heart rate zone and heart icon coloured by zone (if enabled in settings - disabled by default)
- Steps for the current activity
- Steps for today
- Total ascent for current activity
- Current Elevation
- Battery charge level with colour changing battery icon
- GPS status
- Progress bar showing progress towards step goal (if step goal is set)
- Black or white background (via app setting or watch setting)

Hiker also contributes step data to the FIT profile for your activity, recording total steps, lap steps and average steps per km/mile/hour, hiking difficulty, hiking effort in the activity summary in Garmin Connect. It is aware of and supports device settings (Menu - System - Format - Units) for distance units (km or miles), elevation units (m or ft), background colours (black or white), and 12/24 hour clock mode.

See https://flocsy.eu/garmin/hiker/#settings

Also available as a watch-app: https://apps.garmin.com/apps/0ffbd4ea-017d-4ef0-9846-a2c8050f1bfc that also supports older devices.

Feature suggestions are welcome and will be considered. Help with internationalisation would be appreciated. Current translations are based on Reverso and Google Translate. I've made an effort to find the correct translations but have no easy way of finding out if they are correct except through user feedback.

Installation

See https://flocsy.eu/garmin/hiker/#installation

FAQ

See https://flocsy.eu/garmin/hiker/#faq

Source

Hiker is open source (MIT license) and it's code resides on GitHub at https://github.com/flocsy/hiker

Credits

- Forked from Walker by wwarby (https://github.com/wwarby/walker)

- Code and ideas borrowed from RunnersField by kpaumann and steps2fit by rgergely. Thanks for open sourcing your projects.

- Icons by Freepic (https://www.flaticon.com/authors/freepik) and Those Icons (https://www.flaticon.com/authors/those-icons).