Android app - heart rate monitor application

In this section, we will give a complete example of a Central-Peripheral communication using Android. Peripheral is the device which advertises itself and Central responds to the advertisement and initiates the connection process. Normally, the peripheral is an IoT device which broadcast its identity and central is a cell phone which connects to the device to exchange data.

We have discussed various scenarios where a device can act as peripheral and the cellular phone can act as a central to start the communication process. Since we are not focusing on the hardware in this chapter, the complete cycle of Central-Peripheral communication is acquired by one of the software tools discussed in Chapter ...

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