Android/arduino Bluetooth Communication

Link successfully established and able to send data. Android is sending SeekBar data when ever we change it. public void onProgressChanged(SeekBar seekBar, int progress, boolean fr

Solution 1:

the arduinoboard seems to read the RX-Stream byte by byte. If you send "25" it transmits the ascii byte for the character'2' (which is 0x32 / decimal 50) and then the ascii representation for the character '5' (which is 0x35 / decimal 53). The arduino interprets these numbers as characters. So if the number you want to transmit is lower than 256 you can do: On Android:

if(seekBar.getId() == R.id.seekBar)
    {
        speed.setText(String.valueOf(progress));
        if(progress<256)
            streams.write((byte)progress);
    }

To make sure the Arduino interprets it right, use the received character as a short and not as a character.

Hope this helps

Solution 2:

For the sender side, the getBytes() does not return a C string with a null terminator. In Java, arrays contain information about their length. So the byte[] contains its length; it is not like a C char[] which uses a null to indicate the end of the array. If you want to translate the outbound data you need to add the terminator yourself:

String outputData = String.valueOf(progress);
streams.write(outputData.getBytes());
streams.write('\0');

Note that the getBytes() can completely break down if the the character set default encoding changes on the Android side. On a different Android device, the getBytes() could return unicode character set encoding, which the Arduino would not be able to decode.

Solution 3:

You have an int, convert it to a string and send the string:

String outputData = String.valueOf(progress);
 streams.write(outputData.getBytes());

How about just sending the int:

streams.write( progress );

On the Arduino side Serial.read() reads a byte at a time, so (assuming big endianess on the wire) you could do

int incomingByte = Serial.read();
incomingByte <<= 8;
incomingByte |= Serial.read();

Cheers,