“Ready, Set, Go!” with the Fitbit SDK

[JonFitbit]

Hi everyone,

We’re excited for you to start playing around with the Fitbit SDK, available now as a Developer Preview!

To get started, you’ll want to set up your Fitbit Studio IDE and install the Fitbit OS Developer Beta Firmware (v27.30.2.8) onto your Fitbit Ionic smartwatch.

• Head over to our announcement on the Fitbit Developer Blog for how to get everything set up.
• Review the Fitbit OS Beta Release Notes, including current features and known issues.

Let’s have some fun today 🙂

[Leming]

To save a version of you project from the Fitbit Studio, you can do Download -> Export. That will save the current version to a zip file. Use proper name for you zip to follow up the incremental versioning.

To reload a version from a zip file, you can do this:

- unzip the compressed file to a folder

- Browse into that folder and select all the content

- Drag and drop the selected folders/files direct into Fitbit Studio solution explorer (at the left).

This will recreate the exact same folder/file structure of your version.

I think Fitbit Studio should have an "Import from folder" feature instead of having to drag-and-drop the selected folders/files or even better, "Import from zip".

[gozumi]

This is a great start guys. One suggestion I have is, you should provide the ability for developers to use the development environments that they are familiar with and simply provide a mechanism to push code to your servers. The IDE you provide is way behind what is currently available (e.g. Visual Studio Code etc.). It seems a waste of your development effort to try to compete in the IDE space. Instead you should concentrate on providing a high quality API for developers to use to publish FitBit apps. This would also solve the problem of "version control" which seems to be missing from your service.