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this one goes out to all of you pebble users out there now a few days ago one of the most anticipated developments in the pebble ecosystem actually finally happened it was the pebble App Store unfortunately much to the ire of all Android users out there the Android pebble app store was not quite ready yet and if you looked on the subreddit there was a lot of anger over this luckily a few hours after the iOS pebble app store was put out a beta for the updated version on the Android ecosystem was released and I've been using it for the last few days I wanted to show you what it was all about hey it's Josh regard from Andhra Authority what's going on everybody and this is a first look at the pebble app store now before we get started I did want to just let everybody know that this pebble right here that I'm wearing on my signature grunge cuff is an acquisition that I had over Christmas I've had this since the end of December and I've really just been loving this pebble a full review of the pebble will be coming very soon I'm mostly waiting for the software via the firmware 2.0 to be fully released because there will be a lot of enhancements that further create a better experience on the pebble smartwatch and it is in that lens that I'm going to be doing a full review of what has become one of my favorite peripherals in the mobile space all right and here is my pebble smartwatch right here on the right and then my Nexus 5 which is what I use it the most on so quick history lesson when you used to get apps for your pebble smartwatch you would have to go to various websites online that had developers consolidated with their software that they've created and it wasn't that hard to get apps but by consolidating everything into one place pebble is pretty much trying to make the process even easier and one of the other reasons why that is important is because if you look at the apps that you could download for your pebble they have to be downloaded onto your phone as well the vast majority of them had to be apps on your phone on top of the apps that went to the SmartWatch and what that meant is when you download these apps right here onto your phone they would take up all of the space in your app drawer for example you can see the new pebble app right there I would have lines of different pebble apps just taking up space in the app drawer so by whittling down the number that you need and by consolidating everything that's just a one pebble app itself it really freed up a lot of space inside of the app drawer so thank God for that so with that in mind we'll just go ahead and jump into the app itself now remember this is a beta app so obviously it's not going to be completely polished mostly the speed is something that users are going to find is a little bit lacking so as you can see here we're looking at the actual pebble itself my pebble and if for anyone who already knows how because they have a pebble you can only have up to eight watch faces or apps installed at one time onto your SmartWatch so those are they ate up here I have things from timers too I even have a sleep tracker right here because there's a companion app for sleep as Android and I also have Yelp and Foursquare to help me look for places to eat from time to time and of course music boss to help me control the music on my phone without having to take it out but one of the great things about the App Store again is the fact that it has this Locker here on the bottom half you used to have to download an app that would consolidate your SmartWatch apps into one place that way if you wanted to uninstall one in order to install yet another one then you can go back and forth well now that's part of the pebble app itself and that's really awesome but of course what we're looking for here are the new installation apps and watch faces so as you can see here it's not necessarily the fastest happen it takes a little while to load everything up but once you get to the actual ecosystem itself you'll find that there's all a lot there are thousands and thousands of different watch faces and apps that you can install on to yours pebble smartwatch and they're all consolidated right here and they all look really cool I generally don't put watch faces on my SmartWatch because I actually really like the the wordid one right here of course there are the pre built-in ones that you have aside from that but I generally dump the watch faces I'm here because I focus on the apps but if you want to change the look of your smartphone when it is your SmartWatch rather when it is just a watch this is the place to do it and you'll be able to find all of them here you have categories for most loved and the pics that pebble likes and then a nice splash screen at the top just showing you a few of them in particular like the chrono so let's look at the apps and the apps are categorized in very particular ways there is actually a category for fitness that you're going to see right there you have the same splash up here that will show just sort of the featured ones like a pebble camera to be able to control the camera on your smartphone Yelp which is when I talked about earlier for finding places to eat or places you have to find places nearby and then you have the categories here for daily usage tools and utilities notifications as well I use the Notification Center rather than the built-in notification functionality that's on the pebble well primarily because I like the way it's displayed a little bit better and then you also have the categories down here for weekly top picks the most loved and the essentials so you'll be able to widdle through all of the different apps there's a bunch of them you might even have to search for them if you need to like for example I was looking for a Pomodoro timer if you don't know Pomodoro it's a way of keeping yourself focused on your task by allotting a certain amount of time to the task itself and then allowing a little bit of time for rest afterwards it's just a nice way of keeping yourself focused in order for me to find the one that I have used since I first had my pebble I had to search for Pomodoro and it's going to try and search through the entire ecosystem to find it and finally there you go and there are a couple of them and the one that I use the most is PBL pom pebble pom and that one I wasn't able to find easily inside of the tools and utilities category but by searching for Pomodoro it was easy to find right there so aside from all of that it really is just a matter of the fact that the pebble app store is is making the life a lot easier for pebble users by putting everything into one place it's not even trying to necessarily control what types of apps come out it really is just creating a place for all of them to be under one roof and it really helps a lot other functionality like that Locker which I showed you earlier is another great reason why the app store is is highly anticipated for all of us users and so there you have it for the first look at the pebble app store for Android which is still in its beta phase hopefully the full release will come out very soon along with 2.0 which is what I'm waiting for it to really show you what the pebble can do for all of you pebble users out there you can find the beta version at and rathore decom we have a link available for you there and for all of you users who are still debating on whether or not you should get a pebble don't worry I've got your back and I'll tell you exactly why I think this is one of the best wearable tech that you can get today so as always thank you guys very much for watching and I hope you enjoyed this look at the pebble App Store remember we have great content just like this and a lot more here at the Android Authority YouTube channel not just from the likes of me but also from Joe Jason Kevin the tech ninja so drop us Lex in our videos make sure you hit that thumbs up because we love seeing that 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