When comparing Droid Retro LCD Watch Face vs Minimal & Elegant, the Slant community recommends Minimal & Elegant for most people. In the question“What are the best custom Android Wear watch faces?” Minimal & Elegant is ranked 2nd while Droid Retro LCD Watch Face is ranked 81st. The most important reason people chose Minimal & Elegant is:
Time, date and branding and background colors can be set to change depending on time of day. Background can be customized independent from rest of the colors.
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Pros
Pro Quick access to alarms, chronograph, and more
All the words around the edge of the virtual LCD display can be pressed, and they will perform the function indicated on them. This gives you quick access to all of the features of a basic watch.
Pro Watch colors can be changed based on time
Time, date and branding and background colors can be set to change depending on time of day. Background can be customized independent from rest of the colors.
Pro Highly customizable
Minimal & Elegant ensures that users are able to customize the watch as much as possible. Things that could be customized include AM/PM text, 24h mode, clock color, and periodic color changing.
Pro Branding can be removed and users can put custom text
Text is fully customizable.
Pro No limit to color
Backgrounds of any color can be chosen using a color picker.
Cons
Con Requires additional paid app to work
Droid Retro LCD Watch Face is a pre-configured watchface based on WatchMaker Premium Watch Face ($4.00). WatchMaker Premium Watch Face is an app that lets you build your own custom watch face from start to finish, and Droid Retro LCD Watch Face is one that was built from WatchMaker (so it needs WatchMaker to work).