Will B4a support Pebble watch or Ooya?

[wheretheidivides]

Will B4a support Pebble watch or Ooya?

 

[Erel]

Please do not post duplicate questions.

 

[Gary Miyakawa]

I'm interested in the answer on this ? I did a search on Pebble and did not find reference to any other posting.

Do we know if B4A will be able to build apps for Pebble?

Thanks,

Gary M

 

[Erel]

The communication with the watch is done with intents: Pebble Android SDK — Google I/O Developer Preview

I haven't tried it however you do not need any library to build an application that sends such intents or listens to intents.

 

[wheretheidivides]

The communication with the watch is done with intents: Pebble Android SDK — Google I/O Developer Preview

I haven't tried it however you do not need any library to build an application that sends such intents or listens to intents.

So I guess you're going to tell me I should read up on intents as I have no idea what they are. The current program I am working on is for casino dealers. they are not allowed to take out phones, but can have watches. So I think it'd be cool to send info over to the watch.

 

[Erel]

Do you have such a watch?

 

[wheretheidivides]

no, but I have one on order. they are shipping feb-april time. abit expensive at $150, but still if the aps are needed, then people will use.

 

[Erel]

You should read about intents and intent filters. It shouldn't be complicated to communicate with this watch.

Once you have access to this watch I can further help you.

 

[wheretheidivides]

You should read about intents and intent filters. It shouldn't be complicated to communicate with this watch.

Once you have access to this watch I can further help you.

You the man. I have learned a ton about B4A in the last 2 months, that I don't consider myself a beginner anymore. More like a average user now.

 

[seskindell]

You should read about intents and intent filters. It shouldn't be complicated to communicate with this watch.

Once you have access to this watch I can further help you.

Hi Erel,

I have the watch and I can not get it to work with intents. I have used intents before with other watches and they work alright.

This is the code I execute (does absolutely nothing):

i.Initialize("com.getpebble.action.SEND_NOTIFICATION","")
i.PutExtra("title",filep )
i.PutExtra("body",filep)
i.PutExtra("messageType","PEBBLE_ALERT" )
i.PutExtra("sender","espcards")
i.PutExtra("notificationData",filep)
p.SendBroadcastIntent(i)

Please help. Thank you,
Steve

 

[Erel]

Are you sure that the value of PEBBLE_ALERT constant is PEBBLE_ALERT?

 

[Mark Read]

The code you posted has a space in the word notification. Is this correct?

Regards
Mark

 

[seskindell]

I know about the space .. this web site puts a space automatically .... I tried to edit it but there is still a space in the post (But not in the source code).

 

[seskindell]

From what I have determined from a search on the internet PEBBLE_ALERT is the string "PEBBLE_ALERT"

- Steve

 

[seskindell]

Here is the link:

Sending an intent to the Pebble Android App - Problems with enumeration - Pebble Forums

 

[agraham]

From here "Send Notification to Pebble " in Pebble Android SDK — Google I/O Developer Preview

"title" and "body" are not individual extras like you have coded but are part of "notificationdata" which is a JSON string. This may be why it is not working.

 

[seskindell]

Can somebody help me with converting the jason string to basic4android:

public void sendAlertToPebble()
{

final Intent i = new Intent("com.getpebble.action.SEND_NOTIFICATION");

final Map<String, Object> data = new HashMap<String, Object>();
data.put("title", getAlertTitle());
data.put("body", getAlertBody());
final JSONObject jsonData = new JSONObject(data);
final String notificationData = new JSONArray().put(jsonData).toString();

i.putExtra("messageType", PEBBLE_ALERT);
i.putExtra("sender", "MyAndroidApp");
i.putExtra("notificationData", notificationData);
sendBroadcast(i);
}

Thank you for any help.

- Steve

 

[Erel]

You should use JSONGenerator from the JSON library. It is more or less identical to the above code.

 

[agraham]

As the Java packages the JSON object as a JSON array you need to do this to get the equivalent JSON string.

Dim json As JSONGenerator
Dim data As Map
Dim alist As List
data.Initialize
alist.Initialize
data.Put("title", "MyTitle" )
data.Put("body", "whatever")
alist.Add(data)
json.Initialize2(alist)
s = json.ToString

 

[seskindell]

Works perfectly!

Thank you for all the help.

- Steve: