Translate Your Apps, More Fun in SF and more!
Here's another newsletter blog post to keep you up-to-date on the Pebble community happenings. This time we've got stories of success and tips on expanding your app's audience!
Get Ready For The World
Soon we will be supporting English, French, German, Spanish and Chinese, all of which will allow time and date functions to produce information in a localized form. Developers everywhere can begin to add localizations to their apps using the Internationalization API. What does this mean for you? It means you can make your apps accessible to even more users in even more countries!
To read more about localization, tips and tools for translating your apps be sure to read the brand new Translating Your Apps guide!
Pebble's First Hackathons in China!
In November Pebble sponsored two major hackathons in China. The first was Hack Shanghai with 250 of the top student developers in the country and the second was THacks, the first student-run hackathon at Tsinghua University in Bejing. Both hackathons were 36 hours of intense hacking on Pebble and many other types of hardware.
At Hack Shanghai the second place winner overall was FastReader: a Spritz speed reader. The user can preset certain reading material categories through the cellphone and then Pebble flashes the important words. If the user finds the reading material interesting, then the user can read the full article off the cell phone.
Another cool Pebble app was Active Social Matching. Users can preset the characteristics of people they'd like to meet. If two users are physically nearby and with >80% matching characteristics, then the watch will vibrate. The users then can decide from preset messages on the watch if they want to meet with each other or not.
There were a lot of other amazing projects that came out of the event and we're looking forward to seeing more types of global applications in many languages as we come to a hackathon near you!
Pebble London's First Meetup Was a Hit
On the 27th of November we hosted a meetup for London based Pebble developers at Innovation Warehouse, and you guys didn't disappoint! Apart from the special guest appearances from SwimIO, we had over 40 Pebblers attend for food, networking and a generally awesome time.
We also had flash talks from anyone who wanted to express themselves, and were subsequently entertained by Jens Elstner for Keepzer, Tim Williams for what3words and Nick Jackson for Pebble Bike.
Didn't make it? Don't fret! We will be continuing to host meetups in London and other places in the coming weeks and months, so join our Pebble London Meetup group to be notified of upcoming events!
Pebble SF Returns with Holiday Workshop
This coming Thursday December 11th, we will once again be taking over the space at Atlassian in San Francisco, and you're invited! If you're in the area be sure to sign up on the meetup page, and come along for our workshop on how to build your first Pebble watchface! You can buy Pebbles for loved ones as gifts and create a picture scrolling watchface just for them!
Here are some pictures from last month's meetup. If you can't make it this time we host them in SF every month and plan to expand rapidly in more locations!
Hackateam Connected Challenge Hackathon
Want to hack en Français? Hackateam is launching its almost four month long online hackathon aimed at creating the best new ideas in connected devices and technologies, and you can take part! Teams of up to five members can sign up before the 15th January 2015 and develop a prototype project for the 15th February. After the finals on the 15th March, the top 5 winning teams will receive some of 20,000 euros worth of prizes!
Awesome Community Links
Here are some of the things we've seen in the Pebble community recently. If you see something you think should be included, let us know!
The folks behind Nightscout (CGM in the Cloud) have had some great success with their project to monitor glucose levels from their wrists. Check out their video!
Wearable analytics platform Strap have raised $1.25M in funding to expand beyond Pebble and Android Wear to even more platforms. We also have a blog post and Developer Retreat guest presentation from them!
Want to see live solar flares from your wrist? Well, now you can with Adam Fourney's Sunshine watchface. Images are taken from the SOHO spacecraft in orbit around the sun!
Upcoming Events
Want to #MakeAwesomeHappen locally? For a list of upcoming events check out our events page!
If you want to host a meetup in your area Pebble can sponsor you!
Overview
- Get Ready For The World
- Pebble's First Hackathons in China!
- Pebble London's First Meetup Was a Hit
- Pebble SF Returns with Holiday Workshop
- Hackateam Connected Challenge Hackathon
- Awesome Community Links
- Upcoming Events
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