A Hybrid App Journey - Epic FEL 2015

"Connected devices, Cordova... and Cats". My EpicFEL talk about a Bluetooth Low Energy app we're developing. The real app is currently under NDA, so we came up with a slightly modified app concept to help explain it: Collr.io, "the world's first disco fitness collar for cats".

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1. Peter O’Shaughnessy A Hybrid App Journey
2. www.flickr.com/photos/cathyg
3. collr.io www.flickr.com/photos/laiane
4. Everything’s getting connected...
5. Smart Watches www.flickr.com/photos/shinyasuzuki
6. Smart Earbuds www.bragi.com
7. Smart Skipping Ropes tangramfactory.com
8. Connected Devices viget.com
9. Bluetooth Low Energy
10. Bluetooth Low Energy • Low power usage • Can constantly advertise presence • < 100 kbps throughput (vs 2 Mbps)
11. Bluetooth Low Energy support www.eetimes.com
15. Going native
16. Cordova
17. Wrapping Cordova with Gulp
18. Developing in the browser
19. Mock Bluetooth service
20. Mock Bluetooth service
21. Getting the app onto phones for testing
23. Jenkins
24. Jenkins
25. Getting to grips with Flux
27. Let’s connect to Collr and make the lights flash
30. “Error: Cannot dispatch in the middle of a dispatch”
33. Bluetooth gotchas
35. Review plugins carefully!
36. www.flickr.com/photos/kathleenbladen
37. iOS and Android cache the device name against the Bluetooth device address
38. Our journey continues...
39. www.flickr.com/photos/dat-pics
40. www.skeezixthecat.com
41. @poshaughnessy @pebblecode Thanks! www.flickr.com/photos/energy2024 We’re hiring! pebblecode.com/careers/