Pebble Developer Blog

Last weekend, we were so excited to watch a new group of Pebble Developers blossom. Pearl Hacks, an all women’s hackathon hosted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, served as an incubator for a class of young women who are a testament to the diversity of backgrounds represented by the Pebble Developer community.

Were these women seasoned hackers? Nope, 60% of them had never been to a hackathon before, and the majority of the attendees had been programming for less than a year! Regardless of their previous technical experience, they created spectacular projects, and we were so impressed by their practical, useful hacks. When we started our workshop to help first time developers get started with Pebble, we had no idea just how many projects would be created over the course of the weekend! Only 4 people in the room of about 40 people had ever heard of Pebble before but in just 24 hours we had 15 teams create Pebble projects!

The new timeline interface is a completely new way to have users interact with your app. The Pebble SDK along with timeline web APIs allows you to push pins to your users' Pebbles. Adding pins to timeline is a straightforward process. This guide will walk you through the steps from start to finish.

Many of you have read about smartstraps on our Kickstarter page and contacted us for more details. Today we are releasing mechanical and electrical designs so you can start working on the next generation of straps: Straps that expand the functionality of Pebble Time and Pebble Time Steel.

The smartstrap connector is situated on the back of your new favorite watch. Smartstraps can extend below the watch to reach that connector while Pebble Time is worn. In the 3D files we are releasing today, you will find a generic connector that can work with most straps. Of course, you can also design completely new straps if your project calls for one!

You might have noticed on the Internet that we announced the brand new Pebble Time on Tuesday. Almost 50,000 members of our community have already backed the project on Kickstarter this week.

Most important for all of you is that today we are announcing the first developer preview of Pebble SDK 3.0. This new SDK is available right now to all Pebble developers, via CloudPebble or to install on your computer. Both versions include an emulator with support for the new hardware, and of course the color screen!

Drawing complex paths requires a lot of manual work on Pebble. Here I'll show you how to do this efficiently and quickly using a Pebble-optimized GPath algorithm and Bezier curves.

This is another in a series of technical articles provided by the members of the Pebble software engineering team. This article describes some recent work done at Pebble to develop a Pebble emulator based on the QEMU project (QEMU, short for Quick EMUlator, is a generic, open source machine emulator and virtualizer).

This is another in a series of technical articles provided by the members of the Pebble software engineering team. This article describes some recent work done at Pebble to develop a Pebble emulator based on the QEMU project (QEMU, short for Quick EMUlator, is a generic, open source machine emulator and virtualizer).

We're thrilled to announce the latest addition to CloudPebble: a Pebble smartwatch emulator!