Interfacing with iPhone/Android Music Playing over bluetooth with Pebble

Question

I would like to create a simple Pebble watchapp that can play/pause and skip songs that are currently playing on the phone, similar to the built-in app.

I have never created a watchapp, but I have done the Hello World official example app.

I don't really know where to start, as I haven't found much in the way of documentation as far as interfacing with the phone. I do not want my app to require a companion app.

The pebble documentation is short at best, and doesn't (AFAICS) contain relevant information. https://developer.getpebble.com/2/api-reference/

Where could I go about finding the information on how to interface with the phone's music control without a companion app?

Thanks

Answer 1

You cannot control the music player from a Pebble app running on the watch.

What others have done in the past (See peapod on github) is write a Pebble app that talks to an iOS companion app with appmessage. The iOS companion app controls the music player.