It's Time to Put Your Ideas On Our Timeline!
For the past few weeks, we’ve been releasing updated elements of our new SDK. As many of you know, one of the most important facets of the Pebble Time is the Pebble timeline.
The timeline is a core feature of the Pebble Time that allows users to see important events in their past, present, and future. The timeline creates a unique opportunity for both Pebblers and developers. Not only can users simplify their lives by tracking the important events in their days, but developers can also create applications that push pins directly to their users’ Pebbles.
Great Uses of Timeline
Timeline was envisioned to be a truly personal experience for users: they have the power to determine exactly what content goes on their timeline. Here are some potential ways Pebblers can use their timeline:
- A mom can track her child’s flight itinerary.
- A swimmer can check the times of all his races for the day.
- A doctor can see which meetings she missed during her last surgery.
- A student can check when he next has to take his medicine.
- A tailgator can keep track of their favourite sports teams.
The possibilities are endless, which is why we now want to turn to our amazing, creative community to see what you all can create. There are so many applications that we would love to see materialize, and the ideas below are barely the tip of the iceberg.
- Sports tracking: upcoming matches, live scores, notifications on goals, etc
- Transit (Bus/Train/Subway/other) times for your city
- Reminder services and integration with to-do list applications
- TV reminders: being able to select your favorites so that you’ll be notified when the program will air.
- Flight status trackers
- Weather alerts: snow alert/ice alert/pollen alerts/extreme weather notifications
- Payment reminders
- Coupon/discount notifications
- Software/website performance notifications
How to Get Started With Timeline
These apps and others like them would be widely used, and we encourage you to start developing. For a detailed tutorial on how to write your first timeline application, check out this blog post. You can also peruse our timeline guides, as well as a few open source examples such as Hello Timeline and Timeline TV Tracker.
If you’d like some extra guidance before jumping in and developing your own app, you’re in luck! Our next meetup, which is on April 23rd in San Francisco, will be focused exclusively on timeline. We’ll be giving live demos on how to create timeline apps, how to utilize timeline pin actions, and more. If you can’t join us in person, watch the livestream of the event virtually! Follow @PebbleDev on Twitter or watch the Meetup page for the link when it goes live.
If all the exciting features and possibilities mentioned above weren’t enough to inspire you to write timeline apps for the rest of your life, today we are also teasing our Timeline Challenge. The Timeline Challenge will be a competition to see who can create the most innovative, exciting Pebble applications that use the timeline: winners will receive Pebble Times, awesome swag and exclusive opportunities. Look out for more details coming next Tuesday, April 14th!
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Love,
Team Pebble
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