Tutorial #1 Bluetooth Application for Android - Part I

PART I - SETTING UP THE PROJECT

Hello friends , this is going to be the first tutorial on my blog. I am going to start a tutorial on making a fully functional Bluetooth application for Android. When I was making a project on Arduino platform I wanted to make the Bluetooth functionality through android app myself rather than downloading and installing an application from the Play Store. I looked for tutorials related to that. I found many tutorials but most of them were limited to searching Bluetooth devices and listing them(not to mention only the paired one). Even If I found some full tutorial, it was very difficult to understand for a beginner. So I have decided to write this post and make it as simple as possible for the beginners and noobs.

Requirements for learning this tutorial :

 1. Android Studio installed on your system be it Mac, Windows of Linux

 2. Basic programming skills

 3. Little knowledge of core java won't hurt

So let's start by opening the Android Studio

Start a new project in the Android Studio. Give it a name you want and click next button.

Select the minimum Android version that can run the application. I am choosing Android 4.0 as devices with lower API are almost none. Now click next to continue.

In the next window create an empty activity and give it a suitable name. I am using the default name so to follow this tutorial choose the same name. Click finish to move to the code editor.

Now let the gradle sync and build the index. If the gradle sync fails due to an error refer google for troubleshooting.This is the end of part I of this tutorial. Click here to part II  of this tutorial.