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Pebble's app development toolkit for the Pebble smartwatch, Android and iOS
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Native HTTP support #41

Closed natevw closed 11 years ago

natevw commented 11 years ago

Would love to see Pebble Kit get official support for HTTP along the lines of what Katharine has done with HTTPebble. There's already a branch of libpebble that supports the protocol, and I've been gathering some notes on how to tweak the current protocol to be a bit more efficient. (I've also been researching CoAP quite a bit with my microstates project and there's some good stuff there that might be worth using in a "2.0" implementation.)

I found HTTPebble to be a really compelling "platform" for a watch app. It has some drawbacks in that it requires a second app to be installed and kept running by the user, some UUID issues, and the creator/maintainer seems to be very busy with paying work. These drawbacks could go away with official support, and to do so would make shipping really interesting watch apps much easier. Would love to see her get some official work with "the mothership" :-)

iosdeveloper commented 11 years ago

:+1:

sarfata commented 11 years ago

Hi @natevw

Thanks for the feedback. I am going to close this now as this is not really a bug.

Totally unrelated: Please contact me (thomas@getpebble.com) if you would like to check out the new SDK under NDA.

thomas

bengalaviz commented 11 years ago

:+1:

natevw commented 11 years ago

Thanks guys :-)

natevw commented 11 years ago

To clarify: 1) the PebbleKit JS framework will make it possible to make HTTP requests without a separate app (and without UUID hacks), and 2) in this morning's announcements mention was made that Pebble is sponsoring Katherine — so, best of both worlds!