Welcome to the American Airlines / Gogo in flight / Wearable World Hackathon!

Pebble is very excited to support this hackathon with some Pebbles and technical support, available online during the hackathon.

First steps

First things first, if you have not done so, please claim your Pebble with the organizers. Every team gets one Pebble. To set up your Pebble, you will need the iOS or Android Pebble application. You can follow installation instructions on go.getpebble.com.

There are different ways to do Pebble development:

• For a very quick start, we recommend that you use the CloudPebble web IDE. With CloudPebble, it will only take you a few minutes to build your first Pebble application and deploy it on your watch.

• You can also download and install the Pebble SDK on Linux and MacOS. Instructions are on our developer website.

Choose your weapons

In the context of this specific hackathons, you can build different type of applications. We recommend that you choose one of the three following scenarios:

• Use Pebble.js to write an application completely in JavaScript.
• Use Pebble C SDK to write a Pebble app in C, and use some JavaScript to connect your application to the Internet
• Use PebbleKit iOS and Android to connect an iOS or Android application to Pebble.

Need an example?

To help you get started, we have built a simple Pebble.js application that uses the Gogo In Flight API to show some information about the current flight.

This is what it looks like:

And this is the source code:

Feel free to use and modify that example!

Contacting us

If you need help, we have setup a public HipChat room where you can ask questions and talk to us during the Hackathon.

Join the AA Hackathon chat room

If we are not around, please leave your questions and we will get back to you ASAP.

We wish you a great time in this hackathon and cannot wait to see what you will build!