Phonegap Healthcare Adapter Bluetooth Implementation

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NexJ Medical Peripheral Mobile Adapter Will be designed to enable NexJ's Mobile Healthcare solutions to interact with Bluetooth peripherals.

Main article: Mobile Medical Device Integration

See also: Phonegap Healthcare Adapter Design and Phonegap Healthcare Adapter Bluetooth Spec

Bluetooth Profiles

A Bluetooth profile is a wireless interface specification for Bluetooth-based communication between devices. Bluetooth communication protocols in the programming interface of iOS and Android are transparent.

iOS

• iOS 3+ SDK supports Bluetooth 2.2 devices.
  • Profiles for Bluetooth 2.2 devices are specified here.
• iOS 5+ SDK supports low energy Bluetooth devices(Bluetooth 4.0).

Android

• SDK supports Bluetooth 2.2
• No Support for Bluetooth 4.0

Supported Languages

iOS

• Objective C
• C, C++ syntax is viable

Android

• Supports Java, equivalent to Java SE 6
• C, C++ support via the Android NDK

SDK Examples

iOS

• Enabling Bluetooth on the iOS simulator
• Example program interfacing with Bluetooth low energy temperature sensor using the SDK's CoreBluetooth class
  • Sample

Android

• Example exploring interactions with Bluetooth devices using Android Bluetooth API's
  • Bluetooth Library
  • Sample: BluetoothChat
    • Code