Connection to android

Question

Dear Fjodor or any of the other TA's,

We have a question about our project. For our project we now have created an application for on the phone and we have coded a gps module in arduino so that it can get the GPS data from the current place of the hiders. The only struggle is that we can’t seem to figure out how to get the gpsdata from Arduino to the application. We have already done some research on the internet and we saw that it might be possible with the program Visuino but we don’t know if that’s the best idea. Can’t we better program the data of the gps module in Android studio’s , Eclipse or another programm? If so could you help us make that possible?

With kind regards, Group 12

Answer 1

You say "we now have created an application for on the phone". How did you do this**? (what platform/IDE/tool did you use to program it?) If you use a Bluetooth connection, you could just send the data via a Serial Connection (Serial.print/println) and read it on the Application on the Phone.

** If you for instance made that application in Android Studio, you could google for "android studio ble read serial data" and then find info like this or this...

The info I added today (see announcement on Canvas) to the article "Introduction to the Arduino Nano BLE" about "Bluetooth communication between two Nano BLE devices" could also be helpful, as a phone can also be a Slave (or maybe a Master)...