Simulator documentation

[davidskeck]

Apologies if I am just missing this, but I don't see any documentation about how to set up the simulator to use locally for creating watch apps. Is there a document that covers this? Thank you!

[joeycastillo]

There isn't yet; I need to make one. The closest thing is @a2's comments on the simulator pull request.

You'll need to install Emscripten and make sure that emmake is in your path. Then in a folder with a Makefile, run emmake make instead of make, and python3 -m http.server -d build/ to run a server locally. The URL is http://localhost:8000/watch.html. I have noticed that emmake doesn't seem to notice when files change and recompile them; until we figure out a workaround for that, I just delete the whole build folder after making a change.

Note also that the "Set location register" button in the simulator HTML page may not work when served locally, as the getLocation call fails when the page isn't being served over a secure connection.