Fitbit Studio: Cloud Pebble spiritual successor? ETA?

[FLGMwt]

From the dev site, it appears we have a browser-based IDE to look forward to. Should those of us familiar with Cloud Pebble expect a similar experience? Browser-based emulation and deployments to watches? Also, should we expect to see this available before the Ionic is released?

EDIT: aha! https://studio.fitbit.com/ says September

[ThomasFitbit · Accepted solution]

Yes, definitely a spiritual successor, and yes available in September. You do need a watch though - there is no emulation in Fitbit Studio for now.

cheers,

thomas

[Anthoang]

Kinda disappointing there isn't a browser-based emulation.    Makes it hard for those developers who won't have a Ionic device until October at the earliest. 

[NiVZ]

It's possible to at least start mocking up your graphics and layouts with a little bit of effort in JSBin 😉

http://jsbin.com/sosokon/edit?html,css,js,output

NiVZ

[Anthoang]

NiVZ, thanks for the link.  Looks promising.  Do you know if the jsbin link is from an official Fitbit representative? 

[nevraw]

No. It's Paul's own. He used the same approach for early testing of ideas  with Pebble watchfaces.

Here it gives us a real chance to see what our Ionic solutions could look like.  I have been using his JSBin approach to test out new clock faces and it's really helping me.

[Anthoang]

Found a git repository from Fitbit that looks like code for a watchface.  https://github.com/Fitbit/sdk-lcd-clock    But without a screenshot or working demo, I can't really say for sure. 

[JonFitbit]

They're linked from the examples page: https://dev.fitbit.com/tutorials/examples/

[nevraw]

@Anthoang As posted above, to see what it would look like, @NiVZ created this:
   http://jsbin.com/sosokon/17/edit?html,css,js,output