Developing for Pebble Control cloud apps from your wrist

Mark Heckler Developer, Developer Advocate, Java Champion, and Really Hoopy Frood

@MkHeck

What is a Pebble?Original model

2012/2013

ePaper screen

Low resolution

Android AND iOS

INSANE battery life!

History & models

Pebble

Pebble Ste

el

(2013/2014

)

Pebble Tim

e

Pebble Tim

e Steel

(2015)

Pebble Tim

e Round

(2015)

Pebble 2

Pebble Tim

e 2

(2016)

Competitors

As a developer, why care?

Write once (sort of), run with Android or iOS phone

Write in C or JavaScript

Battery life key for resource-intensive apps

Pebble SDKDesktop IDE support

Android Studio

Xcode

Cloud IDE

C code

Runs on the watch

Pebble.jsDesktop IDE support

Cloud IDE

Runs on the phone (accelerometer, GPS, storage)

JavaScript code

Full access to UI elements, animations, etc.

Sync & async HTTP requests, WebSocket, etc.

app.js

Main “objects”UI framework

Accel

Voice

Window

Element

Vibe

Light

Timeline (app launch via Timeline interface)

Wakeup (scheduled app activation)

Window types

Window (dynamic): completely open to do your bidding

Card: displays a title, subtitle, banner image, & text

Menu: displays a menu ;)

Standard: XHR/Ajax/REST

Standard: WebSocket

Cloud Pebble

Code

Emulator, logs

Push to (actual) Pebble

App windows: a quick look

App menus: a quick look

Useful linkshttps://www.pebble.com/

https://cloudpebble.net/ide/

https://forums.pebble.com/

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference

http://www.slideshare.net/HecklerMark/developing-for-pebble-control-cloud-apps-from-your-wrist

In conclusion…

IoT & cloud? Chocolate & peanut butter

Thank you for participating!

@MkHeck