Appendix A. tBlue Library for Android
In the Bluetooth examples you’ve seen in this book, the interactions have been simple: opening a connection and sending a few characters. But to use Bluetooth, you must also:
Find the cell phone’s Bluetooth adapter.
Define a Bluetooth object that represents the device you are talking to (such as an Arduino).
Open a socket that represents the Bluetooth serial connection.
Open some stream objects: one for sending messages, one for receiving.
Because the Android Bluetooth APIs are complex, we created the class TBlue, which keeps things simple. Chapter 8 has example code that shows you how to use the tBlue
library. Here is the source of the TBlue
class:
// tBlue.java - simple wrapper for Android Bluetooth libraries ...
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