Getting Started with Bluetooth Low Energy: Tools and Techniques for Low-Power Networking

by Kevin Townsend, Carles Cufi, Akiba

With Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE), smart devices are about to become even smarter. This practical guide demonstrates how this exciting wireless technology helps developers build mobile apps that share data with external hardware, and how hardware engineers can gain easy and reliable access to mobile operating systems. This book provides a solid, high-level overview of how devices use BLE to communicate with each other. You’ll learn useful low-cost tools for developing and testing BLE-enabled mobile apps and embedded firmware and get examples using various development platforms―including iOS and Android for app developers and embedded platforms for product designers and hardware engineers.

Genres: Programming

178 pages, Paperback

First published April 30, 2014

Reviews

[Dan Watts · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was published in 2014: a long stretch in the world of technology. Fortunately, the 1st 2/3 of the book is still relevant today, and it allowed me to go from zero to having a working knowledge of BLE in just a few days. However, it was considerably less useful in terms of teaching BLE software development. The last part of the book covers the topic at a shallow level, and most of the development tools it uses are now out-of-date.

[Tim Verstraete · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely interesting book as introduction book to BLE but sometimes the concepts in the beginning are a bit to vague ... so I would have wanted more information in the embedded part to explain some concepts a bit more in the first theory parts of the book BUT overal very interesting.

[Petri Heinua · Rating 3 out of 5]

A decent introduction to the topic. The first half goes through basic principles, data structures and terminology of the BLE, the second half is about setting up your development kits and coding examples.

[Yates Buckley · Rating 3 out of 5]

The style and structure of the text follows very closely any standard manual and is repetitive. I was hoping to more quickly grok a sense of the framework to then orient to details and examples.

[Jeff Patterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

The information is decent, but it is showing its age. I wouldn't consider this book for anything other than a very general overview.

[Amani · Rating 5 out of 5]

Really great!! An excellent start to understand BLE and developing apps to work with it. Well organized and focused. Highly recommend it for everyone as a main milestone for BLE development.

[Sunil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good intro to BLE. Fast paced, well organized and to the point.

The chapter on iOS is very good.
The chapter on Hardware could be improved with much more details on toolchain and embedded programming.

[Jose Papo · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very good and nice intro about BLE