Pebble Developer Blog

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.

In our post on JavaScript Tips and Tricks we strongly recommended the use of JSLint or JSHint to help you detect JavaScript problems at compile time.

We believe JSHint can really increase the quality of your code and we will probably enforce JSHint correct-ness for all the apps on the appstore very soon. In this post we show you how to setup jshint and integrate it in your Pebble development process.

PebbleKit JavaScript is one of the most popular additions in Pebble SDK 2.0. We are already seeing lots of amazing apps being built that take advantage of http requests, configuration UI, GPS and local storage on the phone.

Here are some Tips & Tricks to get the most out of JavaScript in your Pebble apps.

(2014 09: This article was updated to add links for SDK 2.0 users and add the resource identifier of the fonts as suggested by Timothy Gray in the comments.)

Just like any modern platform, typography is a very important element of Pebble user interface. As Designers and Developers, you have the choice to use one of Pebble system fonts or to embed your own.

Pebble system fonts were chosen for their readability and excellent quality on Pebble black & white display, it's a good idea to know them well before choosing to embed your own.