Pebble Developer Blog

Today we're adding a new feature to CloudPebble that will make it easier than ever to build your watchfaces and watchapps! The new UI Editor will let you graphically build the user interface for your C app; you can then use the generated C to build anything you like.

Can you #MakeAwesomeHappen? Your app idea could win a Pebble and a trip to our 2nd Annual Pebble Developer Retreat in Mountain View, CA!

The XDA - Pebble Developer Challenge is a 3-week competition - your opportunity to pitch your proposal for the best Pebble app and bring it to life with a Pebble of your own. We'll be awarding Pebbles to the 20 best app proposals to give even first time developers a chance to work on our platform. Of the 20 proposals that we select the best 3 Pebble apps created will be invited to attend the 2014 Pebble Developer Retreat in October and we'll give them each a Pebble Steel.

We'd like to share a blog post from our friends at Strap on how to add analytics to your Pebble app. Strap is an analytics platform targeted at wearables and helps to gather valuable metrics to help developers with their projects. We hope you find this valuable and follow the links below to try it out:

There are an increasing number of users downloading your Pebble watchfaces and watchapps, but there is really no good way for you to figure out where those users are coming from, how long they stay, and what they do with your app. You can now gain these insights and more with Strap Metrics, the world's first analytics platform built for wearable developers. Strap Metrics has spent the past couple of months in private beta, and we are excited to go public today with support for both PebbleKit JS apps and Pebble companion apps on iOS and Android.

We'd like to share with you a blog post written by our friends at KimonoLabs. Their service allows you to build a JSON API from any website. In this guest- post, they show you how to create a stocker tracker watchapp in less than 10 minutes! This was originally posted here (http://blog.kimonolabs.com/).

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards the Play Store to be born?

Sign up for the Pebble Android Beta Channel to find out!

New Pebble Android releases will be made available to beta testers on this channel. Once you have joined the Google Group, you will need to opt-in. Once signed up and opted-in, you will receive beta versions of the Pebble Android APK through the Play Store. There may be a delay before Google Play transitions you from the release channel to the beta channel.

Today Pebble is releasing its recent modifications to the FreeRTOS project. Pebble has made a few minor changes to FreeRTOS to enable its new sandboxed application environment for PebbleOS 2.0 as well as to make Pebble easier to monitor and debug.

The changes are available as a tarball .

Read on to learn more about the changes and why they were made.