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Hi all,
Just got a Bangle.js 2, been spending some time playing around with some apps, and looking forward to eventually seeing what kind of hacking I can do on it. :)
But right now, I cannot for the life of me figure out how to test apps in the emulator. The only docs I can find seem to make it sound as simple as clicking the emulator button for that app in the App Loader, but… evidently not. I click the button, my browser opens the Espruino IDE with an emulator window, but I can't get anything to happen. The emulator window just shows a splash screen, I click and drag every conceivable button and part of the UI but cannot get anything to happen no matter which app I try to test.
I can paste some little tutorial examples into the IDE and those run, but how on Earth do you load an app from the App Loader, view the code, and run that? All I get is a tab with a comment that says “Loading from ”, but no code and no response.
Tried this on both Firefox and Chromium on Ubuntu 20.04 and had the same results. I suppose I could try to install Chrome and test that if I had to, but all the other features (including App Loader connection and transferring apps to my real watch) seem to work fine in Chromium.
Anyone know what I'm missing? I've been up and down Google and every Espruino and tutorial I can find and nothing seems to explain how to actually get the “try in emulator” thing working in any kind of detail.