bluetooth le for ios and android,Communicating between iOS and Android with Bluetooth LE

I've written a simple working example, well relatively simple, and included it open-source on Github: https://github.com/GitGarage. So far it has only been tested with an Android Nexus 9 and an iPhone 5s, but I presume it would also work with a Nexus 6 and various iPhone types. So far it is set up explicitly to communicate between one Android and one iPhone, but I presume it is tweakable to do much more.

Here are the key methods...

DROID SIDE - Sending to iOS:

private void sendMessage() {

Thread thread = new Thread(new Runnable() {

@Override

public void run() {

if (mBTAdapter == null) {

return;

}

if (mBTAdvertiser == null) {

mBTAdvertiser = mBTAdapter.getBluetoothLeAdvertiser();

}

// get the full message from the UI

String textMessage = mEditText.getText().toString();

if (textMessage.length() > 0)

{

// add 'Android' as the user name

String message = "Android: " + textMessage;

while (message.length() > 0) {

String subMessage;

if(message.length() > 8)

{ // add dash to unfinished messages

subMessage = message.substring(0,8) + "-";

message = message.substring(8);

for (int i = 0; i < 20; i++) // twenty times (better safe than sorry) send this part of the message. duplicate parts will be ignored

{

AdvertiseData ad = BleUtil.makeAdvertiseData(subMessage);

mBTAdvertiser.startAdvertising(BleUtil.createAdvSettings(true, 100), ad, mAdvCallback);

mBTAdvertiser.stopAdvertising(mAdvCallback);

}

}

else

{ // otherwise, send the last part

subMessage = message;

message = "";

for (int i = 0; i < 5; i++)

{

AdvertiseData ad = BleUtil.makeAdvertiseData(subMessage);

mBTAdvertiser.startAdvertising(

BleUtil.createAdvSettings(true, 40), ad,

mAdvCallback);

mBTAdvertiser.stopAdvertising(mAdvCallback);

}

}

}

threadHandler.post(updateRunnable);

}

}

});

thread.start();

}

DROID SIDE - Receiving from iOS:

@Override

public void onLeScan(final BluetoothDevice newDevice, final int newRssi,

final byte[] newScanRecord) {

int startByte = 0;

String hex = asHex(newScanRecord).substring(0,29);

// check five times, startByte was used for something else before

while (startByte <= 5) {

// check if this is a repeat message

if (!Arrays.asList(used).contains(hex)) {

used[ui] = hex;

String message = new String(newScanRecord);

String firstChar = message.substring(5, 6);

Pattern pattern = Pattern.compile("[ a-zA-Z0-9~!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:\"<>?`\\-=;',\\./\\[\\]\\\\]", Pattern.DOTALL);

// if the message is comprised of standard characters...

Matcher matcher = pattern.matcher(firstChar);

if (firstChar.equals("L"))

{

firstChar = message.substring(6, 7);

pattern = Pattern.compile("[ a-zA-Z0-9~!@#$%^&*()_+{}|:\"<>?`\\-=;',\\./\\[\\]\\\\]", Pattern.DOTALL);

matcher = pattern.matcher(firstChar);

}

if(matcher.matches())

{

TextView textViewToChange = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);

String oldText = textViewToChange.getText().toString();

int len = 0;

String subMessage = "";

// add this portion to our final message

while (matcher.matches())

{

subMessage = message.substring(5, 6+len);

matcher = pattern.matcher(message.substring(5+len, 6+len));

len++;

}

subMessage = subMessage.substring(0,subMessage.length()-1);

Log.e("Address",newDevice.getAddress());

Log.e("Data",asHex(newScanRecord));

boolean enter = subMessage.length() == 16;

enter = enter && !subMessage.substring(15).equals("-");

enter = enter || subMessage.length() < 16;

textViewToChange.setText(oldText + subMessage.substring(0, subMessage.length() - 1) + (enter ? "\n" : ""));

ui = ui == 2 ? -1 : ui;

ui++;

Log.e("String", subMessage);

}

break;

}

startByte++;

}

}

iOS SIDE - Sending to Android:

func startAdvertisingToPeripheral() {

var allTime:UInt64 = 0;

if (dataToSend != nil)

{

datastring = NSString(data:dataToSend, encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding) as String

datastring = "iPhone: " + datastring

if (datastring.length > 15)

{

for (var i:Double = 0; i < Double(datastring.length)/15.000; i++)

{

let delay = i/10.000 * Double(NSEC_PER_SEC)

let time = dispatch_time(DISPATCH_TIME_NOW, Int64(delay))

allTime = time

dispatch_after(time, dispatch_get_main_queue(), { () -> Void in self.sendPart() });

}

}

else

{

var messageUUID = StringToUUID(datastring)

if !peripheralManager.isAdvertising {

peripheralManager.startAdvertising([CBAdvertisementDataServiceUUIDsKey: [CBUUID(string: messageUUID)]])

}

}

}

}

iOS SIDE - Receiving from Android:

func centralManager(central: CBCentralManager!, didDiscoverPeripheral peripheral: CBPeripheral!, advertisementData: [NSObject : AnyObject]!, RSSI: NSNumber!) {

delegate?.didDiscoverPeripheral(peripheral)

var splitUp = split("\(advertisementData)") {$0 == "\n"}

if (splitUp.count > 1)

{

var chop = splitUp[1]

chop = chop[0...chop.length-2]

var chopSplit = split("\(chop)") {$0 == "\""}

if !(chopSplit.count > 1 && chopSplit[1] == "Device Information")

{

var hexString = chop[4...7] + chop[12...19] + chop[21...26]

var datas = hexString.dataFromHexadecimalString()

var string = NSString(data: datas!, encoding: NSUTF8StringEncoding) as String

if (!contains(usedList,string))

{

usedList.append(string)

if (string.length == 9 && string[string.length-1...string.length-1] == "-")

{

finalString = finalString + string[0...string.length-2]

}

else

{

lastString = finalString + string + "\n"

println(lastString)

finalString = ""

usedList = newList

usedList.append(string)

}

}

}

}

}