Garmin Dive™ for Android

The whole Garmin Descent experience is awesome until the last mile : the watch is beautiful, the watch usage and customization is great, the dive experience is tremendous, the data collected (GPS entry and exit points 😍), where it goes south is when I try to get the Descent data where I want. Unfortunately this is the part where the app comes in and it has multiple problems, the main one being that if your are diving in a sink hole in the middle of the jungle, or out at sea for multiple days in a row away from any internet connectivity, the app is useless. What further exacerbates this issue, is the devices inability to pair up with any other app such as Subsurface, DiveLogDT, or MacDive to name a few. Some of you may say “well you can import FIT files to those apps”, sure you can, but you must have an internet connection to open up the Dive app, sync your watch with it, then send that data to Garmin’s cloud, then you have to visit the website (can’t download these via the app), then you have to go through each dive entry and download the compressed FIT file (no bulk downloads that I know of), and then you have to unzip each file and then, just then, you can import it to the the dive log app of your choosing. This is really a very poor experience, and I’m surprised that Garmin put so much attention to detail to every other aspect of this watch ecosystem, but completely dropped the ball on this. My main request for Garmin would be this: Garmin, please make it easy for developers to download data directly from the Descent rather than having your users jump through loops and hoops to get the data where they want. Garmin Dive should be an option, not the only one.

Love the app, best dive app I’ve used. Had a Descent Mk1, switched to Shearwater Teric, then switched to Mk2i just based on the Garmin Dive app being superior. However, not having internet connection (like when you’re out in the middle of the ocean) breaks the app. This needs to be fixed, there’s NO reason dove data can’t be local to the phone then sync with servers once cell or wi-fi connection is re-established.

I’m new to diving and did a lot a research on all the wrist mounted units I could find and settled on the Garmin unit. Absolutely loved it, the automatic dive logs are great and have more info than I need and the unit is so easy to use. Great job Garmin.

The Garmin device is amazing. Tracks just about anything & we all know that. The Dive app follows suit and has more info than I truly know what to do with and it’s pretty cool to have accurate dive information right after your dive ( on the watch but also the Android) Let’s be honest tho, I don’t want just my garmin dives loaded here . It’s time for the import function to be worked on ( not forcing me to enter 200+dives manually ONE AT TIME) Once the import is done with the basic structure, I can go and add more and more accurate pieces of data. Please mark it with an import tag so we know that was a PRE-Garmin entry…

Finally usable on iOS 15. Thanks for the fix.