Pebble Developer Blog

Last week, we released both the 2.1 Pebble firmware, as well as the 2.1 Pebble SDK. Please make sure you have the latest version of the SDK (2.1.1) -- the latest update is available from the developer site.

Where can you find a good tutorial on how to program your Pebble? That question pops up frequently among readers on Pebble Developer Forums. Fortunately, a Pebble developer has provided the answer. In the Pebble community, Chris Lewis, a UK-based developer, has produced, beginning with Pebble SDK 1.x and recently with SDK 2.0, that essential tutorial for newbies coming to the platform on his blog: —try { work(); } finally { code(); } . You may want to check it out!

Updated Apr 23rd: "COMING SOON" bug is fixed.

Updated May 14th: We will now make most updates available right away. Your update will be available to both iOS and Android users at the same time if your JS app was previously approved. Newly submitted apps still have to wait for the next version of the iOS app to be made available and will be marked "coming soon".

We get a lot of questions about apps that use JavaScript and their availability in the store. We are improving the Pebble appstore documentation and the Developer Portal to address these questions, but until those changes are live, we thought we would summarize the key points in a blog post.

To help make your Pebble development experience even better, CloudPebble can now display the API documentation for any function directly in the editor view.

Space Apps 2014 is taking place this weekend (April 12th/13th) and we are very happy to be a partner of this event. This year, the challenges include a Wearable category but we do not doubt that Pebble will find its way in a lot of the other challenges as well!

We now have an even easier way for you to deploy apps to your watches! No longer will you have to launch the app, turn on the development server, and type in your IP address. Instead, you now simply need to select your phone from a list.

UPDATE: The next round of Pebble App Challenge voting—narrowing down our 16 finalists—has been postponed for now. We will update the voting schedule after a recent issue with the iOS Pebble app has been resolved.

The public has spoken! The Top16 finalists for the Pebble App Challenge have been selected!

In this video we walk you through your first Pebble Watchface.

Learn how to:

• Build a Pebble app that behaves like a watchface
• Display the time and the date
• Arrange text fields on the screen
• Use the various system fonts
• Invert colors in one part of the screen