I want to develop an Android application which can simulate different Bluetooth devices in one.
for example on launching this application my android device or Computer system act at Bluetooth watch to other devices.
The closest solution I found is a IOS application by Attack pattern .com
http://attackpattern.com/work/bluetooth/
I tried to develop the similar application in android or LINUX system but not find any solution.
Please help.
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So, for the start I have a smart light device. I want to develop a app which searches this smart light and then connect to it. After connection I want to access the traits offered by that smart light and control it from my application.
What I have tried is, I have used Android NSD service to discover devices but I didn't get the smart light device.
Here is what I referred to
https://developer.android.com/training/connect-devices-wirelessly/nsd
https://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/wifip2p
I am making a small school project. I am developing a P2P android mobile application that will detect other similar devices(devices that are using the same app) around.
My question is how can I test it while developing? Can I somehow run 2 physical devices at the same time and then check their Bluetooth functionalities(If yes, then please link a video, article etc.)? Or is there any other solution for this?
Thank you
I am planning a new application that I would like to put on the smartwatch. I would like to have it usable also when there is no phone nearby. The app needs no Internet connection to work, could synchronize data to the phone later and I do not need anything from the phone while the app is running. However I could use the phone no problem to install the app.
I have googled, there are some foggy talks on a web that this is not possible, Android watch must always be connected to the phone for apps to run. How much is it true?
With Android Wear 2.0 it is possible to now develop standalone applications and thus eliminates the need for a mobile 'companion' completely.
Please follow this link for more information: https://developer.android.com/wear/preview/index.html
As I am aware, the current Android Wear version always requires a companion app for installation purposes etc. But with 2.0 this is no longer necessary. It would probably make sense for you to start developing with 2.0 now. That being said, it is still in a development preview and can officially run on only two smart watches (Huawei Watch and LG Watch Urbane 2nd Edition)
Wearable apps are run directly on wearables and don't require presence of a phone except for installation or phone-provided features (voice recognition, SMS, internet connection etc.)
Note that some features are wearable-provided or phone-provided depending on the hardware configuration of the watch/wearable (eg. GPS).
Yes, it is most definitely possible. As long as the wearable app doesn't require any functionality from the phone then it can operate as a standalone device. It will require a companion app on the phone to install the app on the wear device.
There are several wear apps that work without the need to be tethered to the phone, including Google Play music. There is the possibility of designing wear apps for hardware on only a few wear devices - I know that Ghostracer has standalone functionality using GPS, but it requires the wear device to have a GPS chip (it is designed for the Sony SmartWatch 3).
I have been searching for a while now and decided to post a question here to see if someone had already traveled down this specific road.
I am developing a bluetooth enabled device, using the Bluegiga BLE112 chip. They announce this chip to be easily used with iOS devices (and this was our main reason for choosing it)
The device will need to communicate with an App, that we need to be developed for iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and Blackberry. Due to this need, I've decided to use Rhomobile, as it seems to be the only one that supports developing BT apps for iOS without having to develop further plugins.
I only need to send small messages (like commands, small strings) and sometimes a bigger file to the device's internal memory.
On Rhomobile's BT documentation, they state that for iOS it is only possible to comunicate between iOS devices ( i'm thinking that they say this because of the MiFi limitations imposed by Apple, but that using Bluegigas chip are not a problem...)
My question is:
Since Bluegiga's documentation has examples of devices communicating with iOS using their chip, i should be able to develop using Rhomobile and not suffer from the limitation stated above. I wanted to be as sure as possible before making my company spend money ordering the chips and development board and what not..
Has anyone tried this, is my thinking missing something?
Thank you all for your time.
Daniel
Good Question, I think I can understand the reason for your confusion.
The main reason is many people/products/frameworks does not clearly mention if they are talking about Bluetooth Classic or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE).
These are both 2 different things and even thougfh they are called "Bluetooth" one cannot talk to the other.
(Some devices can be both Classic and Bluetooth Low Energy, which allows it to connect to either types)
Ok now comming to your Question :
THE bluegiga dongle is BLE
The Rhomobile is refering to the Bluetooth Classic version of the API.
On iOS the BLE APIs are open to applications, but Classic is limited on iOS , one way for Apps to use Classic Bluetooth on iOS is via the Gamekit APIs but that is possible only when talking with iOS devices, so it wont connect to another Android or Win device that is also Classic.
Needless to say with BLE APIs you cannot connect to calssic anyways.
The bluegiga examples are BLE examples, and apple also has good documentation and examples / samples on how to use BLE so yes it is easy to build a device and app using BLE on iOS.
There is nothing special abut any particular chip yo ucan use any BLE chip - there are many vendors today.
BUT Android (and I guess Windows as well) does not yet have BLE APIs for applications to use :( (Bit I think is is comming soon :))
So I hope this clears things up a bit.
I was thinking of developing an iPhone and android application so that they can share data between each other via bluetooth. Is it possible? If yes how?
Thanks for your help
The Question from user1080731 was - Is it possible to transfer Files Via Bluetooth between Android and iPhone.
And I think that the answer is NO.
The App referred to in the previous responses does not seem to use Bluetooth (the App's description is misleading)
In the demo video for the app - It used Bluetooth when talking between 2 iOS devices, but uses WiFi when talking between Android and iPhone.
in iOS the only possibility is to use the GameKit APIs (primarily meant for peer to peer gaming) to talk to other iOS device using Bluetooth. So you can potentially write an App over this API to do file transfer between iOS devices, (But Gamekit will not work for iOS to Android)
You can use File Transfer Profile of bluetooth for transferring files between bluetooth devices. This is generic for bluetooth not for Operating system(Android, iOS, Windows, etc.).
Coming to your requirement, in both Android and iOS the framework will provide API to use the bluetooth profiles. Just read about bluetooth profiles and OS framework you will get ideas to design your app.
If you are interested, see the Bluetooth Chat App available at Android Developers website, you will get good knowledge about how to use bluetooth in Android. But i don't know about iPhone(iOS) framework. I experienced the bluetooth in Android and at firmware development for embedded products. If you want more in formation about bluetooth profiles see this link
I hope it may help you.