StopWatch timer on the main Watch Face to track my LSD trip

[hank-milliken]

Hello, I have noticed that the stopwatch functionality is very basic and upon exiting the app, the stopwatch timer is stopped and reset. This is sufficient for tracking the brewing of the tea or sprinting a 100m, but it does not work for longer tracking.

It would be great to enable it run on the background and display it on the Watch Face as additional info (similarly like heartbeats or steps are show).

My use-case is maybe funny -> the tracking how far I am on the LSD trip (which is 8h+ long), but I believe it may be very useful for many other longer tracking (hikes, long runs, ...)

I have found couple of issues and even pull-requests that touches this issue but none was quite addressing this fully:

Issues:

• Stopwatch resets when leaving the app. #303
• Display the current time of day in the stopwatch app #956
• Multiple timers #985

PRs:

• Stopwatch Persistence #783
• Stopwatch: add persistence #1410
• StopWatch: add persistence #2141
• Stopwatch: allow sleep #2048

[hank-milliken]

I am trying to do some basic impl. here: #2289

[hank-milliken]

I was able to make it somehow work

[hank-milliken]

It worked 😁