Workshop Wednesdays #5: Bluetooth, BLE and connecting things

Android is the perfect platform for hacking with Bluetooth peripherals. Learning how to connect to BLE devices is not only a useful skill for professional developers, it’s also massive fun! Recent releases of Android have improved how BLE interaction works, and this session takes you through the latest Android 15.

Learn:

• How to write code to send and receive messages from an Android device to any BLE peripheral

• How Android communicates with a BLE device

• All about BLE - how it works and what makes it different to Bluetooth Classic.

About Workshop Wednesdays
Workshop Wednesdays is a series of fortnightly Android workshops led by Google Developer Experts. They are 1-hour virtual meetings designed as true interactive workshops. Follow along with your development environment open, and there will be exercises and challenges along the way. Designed to be helpful to all skill levels, Workshop Wednesdays will nonetheless work better for those with at least some experience in Android/Kotlin.

The workshops don't generally follow any particular order or progression, so if you miss one there won't be any issue following next time.

Agenda

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Host

Tom Colvin - Apptaura (CTO)

Tom Colvin is CTO of Apptaura, the app development specialists; and Conseal Security, the mobile app security experts. He has been a developer for over 20 years and worked with Android since Cupcake. He is a Google Developer Expert in Android

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Partner

Apptaura (https://www.apptaura.com)
The app development experts

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Complete your event RSVP here: https://gdg.community.dev/events/details/google-gdg-hants-surrey-presents-workshop-wednesdays-5-bluetooth-ble-and-connecting-things/.