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Mastering Permissions for Bluetooth Low Energy Android

By: Chee Yi Ong

Navigating Android’s ever-evolving permissions landscape can be a daunting task for developers building Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) applications. Over the years, Android OS updates have introduced new permissions, modified existing ones, and changed how developers must approach permissions for BLE-related functionality. Keeping up with these changes can feel like aiming at a moving target, especially when each version of Android…

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BLE Sniffers: Debugging and when you may need to upgrade

By: Alec Werning

What is a Bluetooth analyzer? And why you may need one. Bluetooth protocol analyzers, also known as Bluetooth sniffers, are devices that capture and inspect radio transmissions on frequencies defined by Bluetooth specifications. Bluetooth…

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Unit Testing Android BLE Code with RxAndroidBle

By: Chee Yi Ong

In this post, we look at what RxAndroidBle offers as far as unit testing is concerned, and we’ll also walk through a case study of unit testing a common BLE business logic. Seasoned Android developers will no doubt have heard of RxJava—a…

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How to Use LightBlue®: The Go-To BLE Development Tool

By: Gretchen Walker

We at Punch Through first began developing LightBlue® for iOS back in 2012 out of internal necessity. We were a young company carving out a determined niche in the exciting new world of Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), the revolutionary new iteration…

Python coding language on computer screen used to test Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral

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Testing Bluetooth Low Energy Peripherals using a Python Script

By: Ashish Derhgawen

When developing a Bluetooth Low Energy peripheral, it’s often useful to have an app that can connect to and test the peripheral to ensure it’s working as expected. If, however, you don’t already have a companion app for the device, you’d…

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Testing Bluetooth Low Energy Devices

By: Punch Through

Bluetooth Low Energy is a new Bluetooth standard that is exciting for a couple reasons- it enables very low power battery applications, and it further opens the smartphone accessory market. LightBlue allows you to test and simulate Bluetooth Low…

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