Name: Multi-sport activity app - DSWatch
Rating: 4.3 (34 reviews)
Author: dsapptech

** New: added mapview, press start while recording **
DSWatch is a multi-sport activity app and recorder.  Use for walking, hiking, skiing, snowboarding, cycling, training, paddling and more. See https://www.dsapptech.com/dwatch.html for more information. The app can be customized by changing settings.

Load waypoints from phone app.  Installing the **optional** Android app enables uploading waypoints for a course or route to your watch or device.  While recording, the app will alert you to approaching waypoints.

The screen packs a lot of information on one page and is hands free.  The title screen shows your heart rate (1), number of notifications (2), phone connected (3), activity type (4) and battery status (5). You can choose to have either the current time or the current activity timer as the central display element.  You can also choose to have the GPS turn on when you start the app so that your activity starts immediately, rather than waiting on a GPS fix.
 
Before starting an activity, tapping the screen will bring up an activity menu to set your current activity to walking, skiing, hiking, cycling and cardio.  The statistics displayed will be context dependent.

To start recording an activity, press the right button.  Once you start the activity the screen will roll through interesting stats without any interaction.  Total vertical ascent and descent will be added to your recording for all activities except cardio workout.  After you save a recording, press the next button to view a summary of your recording.

Each interval, specified in settings, will set a lap indicator in the recording as well as provide an interval status.  While skiing, the app will detect riding the lift to add a lap interval.  You can manually set a lap interval by long holding the start button on VAHR, the left button on Forerunner or the lap button on Edge 520.

Using the app-settings function from your phone you can change a few attributes:
•	Display update speed in seconds (1-60)
•	Start GPS on app launch or only when activity is recording
    -      To conserve battery life, turn on GPS only when activity is recording.  There is some delay between starting the activity and acquiring a GPS fix.
    -      For immediate activity start, turn on GPS at app launch.  The current GPS fix status will be displayed, once you have a fix, activity recording will start immediately
•	You can choose to display current time and date or activity timer in center of screen
•	Lap timer for walking. 0=disable, 1=distance based, 2=time based
    -      Walking lap time in minutes or distance in miles/km
•	Lap timer for hiking. 0=disable, 1=distance based, 2=time based
    -      Hiking lap time in minutes or distance in miles/km
•	Lap timer for cardio. 0=disable, 1=time based
    -      Cardio lap time in minutes
•	Lap timer for skiing. 0=disable, 1=time based, 2=distance based, 3=run based
    -      Skiing lap time in minutes or distance in miles/km
•	Fields rotate through 4 pages.  The data displayed on each page may be configured
    -      The fields displayed are different for each type of activity - slow activity, no GPS; slow activity, with GPS; and fast activity, with GPS

Field names:
Alt - Altitude in ft/m
Dsnt - Descent, vertical loss, in ft/m
Asnt - Ascent, vertical gain, in ft/m
Dst - Distance traveled in ft/m
Time - Time since start of recording (hours and minutes)
Start - Straight line distance to location recording started in ft/m
Brng - Bearing to location recording started in degrees
Lat - Latitude in degrees
Long - Longitude in degrees
Max - Maximum speed recorded in mph/kmph
Spd - Current speed in mph/kmph
Steps - Steps taken during current day
Floors - Floors climbed during current day
Pace - minutes per mile/km
