Bluetooth LE – Part 3

Previously in this series we’ve looked at some of the background of Bluetooth LE and set up a simple Activity / Service framework. In this article we’ll get in to the nitty gritty of Bluetooth LE and look at device discovery.

Bluetooth LE – Part 2

In the previous article we covered a bit of the background of Bluetooth LE and what we’re going to develop in this series, but there was no actual code. We’ll rectify that in this article and define the Service / Activity architecture that were going to use to ensure that we’re going to keep our…

Bluetooth LE – Part 1

At the time of writing, Google have just announced Android Wear, and Motorola announced the Moto 360 smart watch. The Wear APIs are still fairly basic, are quite well documented, and there are more to come, so I’m not going to write a tutorial on them (not yet, at least!). One interesting thing about the…

App Polish

Often we complete the functional aspect of an Android project, and when it comes to adding some sparkle to the UI to really make it appealing to the user inspiration can be a little lacking. In this article we’ll start of with a really functional but boring app, and turn it in to something much…