Tag Archive for 'Android'

Android Bluetooth on steroids with the NDK and bluez

NOTE: this is not a general solution and might not work on every phone or future version of the DKs, but it is still a great way for any prototyping purposes :)

Unfortunately the SDK currently only supports a small set of the Bluetooth stack. As we wanted to integrate some of our hardware gadgets (over SPP/RFCOMM) with our Dev Phone 1, we needed to digg a little deeper. So here is what you want to do to get it working.

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Android NDK logging

So after the first few mini steps into the NDK the first thing you will probably notice missing, is a way to retrieve log messages through logcat. To be able to do this you need to do two things:

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