I obtained a Pebble watch recently and I'm thinking of making custom apps for it so I can do more stuff with it… has anyone done this/does anyone else have a Pebble?

I love my Pebble Time.

I've developed ~3 apps for the Pebble so far, all of which were thrown together pretty quickly. I really like using pebble.js (because it's fairly simple JS), and CloudPebble makes starting out pretty easy.

What were the apps?
I want to make something for my watch but I have no clue what to make
(I don't have the Time, just the original)

Firedrake969 wrote:

What were the apps?

The first one was a proof-of-concept app that let you control Minecraft with the watch alongside a Leap Motion. I never released it because it was never quite polished enough. I released a Wolfram Alpha voice client for the Time, but that got taken down due to legal issues The one I have on the store is an app that adds FRC matches to the timeline with scores and stuff.

Nice. I'm messing around with Google APIs and seeing what I can make with those

Bump…
nobody else?
I'm planning to release an app in the watch app store soon

I've made a couple of apps for my pebble original that I've had since the kickstarter ;P I haven't released them though, I never really finished any. My main project was a client for myanimelist that runs on the watch, but I think I'll wait till rocky.js is fully released before I continue it. Looking forward to seeing your app.

Idk what's a pebble watch

Lemme Google it…


Huh
This “Pebble Watch” thing seems interesting

GRA0007 wrote:

I've made a couple of apps for my pebble original that I've had since the kickstarter ;P I haven't released them though, I never really finished any. My main project was a client for myanimelist that runs on the watch, but I think I'll wait till rocky.js is fully released before I continue it. Looking forward to seeing your app.

Is rocky.js basically a canvas library for the watch?

I'm kinda worried about how much battery my app will consume since it potentially uses a lot of Google Places API calls… it seems like it does shorten the battery life but I'm not sure by how much

I love Pebble.js in general though because UI is super easy

Firedrake969 wrote:

Is rocky.js basically a canvas library for the watch?

As far as I understand it, rocky.js is like pebble.js, but run on the watch itself rather than the phone (further increasing battery life).

That sounds cool, I'll have to check it out