Pebble Developer Blog

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards the Play Store to be born?

Sign up for the Pebble Android Beta Channel to find out!

New Pebble Android releases will be made available to beta testers on this channel. Once you have joined the Google Group, you will need to opt-in. Once signed up and opted-in, you will receive beta versions of the Pebble Android APK through the Play Store. There may be a delay before Google Play transitions you from the release channel to the beta channel.

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.

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!