Previously in this series we’ve looks at improving the UI of our app to display temperature and humidity obtained from a TI SensorTag device, but in this article we’ll turn our attention to the UX.
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App UI / UX – Part 3
In the previous article we applied some custom typefaces to our app which displayed temperature and humidity information obtained from a Texas Instruments SensorTag over Bluetooth LE. One disappointing thing was that we were displaying the rather lofty temperature of 27°C (in UK terms, anyway) against a blue background, which rather implies cold rather than…
App UI / UX – Part 2
In the previous article we began improving the UI of the app we developed as part of the Bluetooth LE series. We updated the layout to something slightly more interesting, but there is still more work to do. In this article we’ll look at how to use custom typefaces within our app.
App UI / UX – Part 1
In the previous series on Bluetooth LE we got a simple app working which read temperature and humidity values from a Texas Instruments SensorTag, and displayed them. Functionally the app worked quite well but, because the series was focused on BLE topics, we neglected the UI somewhat. In this series we’ll take a look at…
Bluetooth LE – Part 6
Previously in this series we’ve looked at the various steps that we need to take before we can begin to get temperature and humidity notifications from a TI SensorTag. In the final article in this series we’ll complete things by registering to receive notifications, and receiving them
Bluetooth LE – Part 5
Previously in this series we have discovered a BLE sensor and connected to it. All that remains is to actually get some data from it but that isn’t quite as straightforward as it may seem, at first. In this article we’ll look at GATT characteristics and how they facilitate data exchange between the host and…
Bluetooth LE – Part 4
Previously in this series we got basic BLE device discovery working for our app to display ambient temperature and humidity with values obtained from a TI SensorTag over BLE. In this article we’ll look at connecting to the SensorTag now that we can find it.
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…