CoB1kGlOtA/0.jpg' alt='How To Install Google Market On Archos 5 Android' title='How To Install Google Market On Archos 5 Android' />Android External Bluetooth GPS Apps Bluetooth GPS For Android. Application Name Bluetooth GPS Provider. Description Replaces internal GPS coordinate signal with one from an external Bluetooth GPS receiver. Publishers website Bluetooth GPS For Android. Cost Free. Versiondate reviewed v. PhoneOS Droid X Android 2. This app is not currently available in the Android Market you will need to download it from the website link above, transfer it over to your Android device, then install it by sideloading it. You will also need to enable installation of stand along Android apk files in the settings section Settings Applications Check the Unknown sources box. Some cellular providers do not allow you to do this. Note Before using this app, you will need to pair your external Bluetooth GPS with your Android phone, and enable mock locations see the Appendix at the bottom of this post for more info. How To Install Chroot Bind On Centos Firewall. Bluetooth GPS For Android is the only free app so far that will let you use an external Bluetooth GPS with your Android unit. Its also the only one currently available outside the Android Market that means you can load it onto units like the upcoming Archos Android tablets that have Bluetooth, but no GPS and no Android Market support. For now, free also means a limited feature set. The current release version is 1. I had serious problems getting it to work correctly. The previous version 1. Downloads section of the website click on the Apk link to list all available versions. Figure 1 The app is called Blue. GPS on your Android, and has a standard Droid icon start it up and get the basic screen above. You should already have turned on your units Bluetooth, and paired your Bluetooth GPS receiver with your Android see the Appendix below for more info. Tap on Choose Bluetooth GPS Figure 2 and get a list of all the paired Bluetooth devices for your phone, including those that arent GPS receivers. Here, Im paired with my desktop computer INSPIRON, and my Bluetooth headset WEP8. GPS receiver HOLUXM 1. Tap on a paired device to select i. Nl3_Pl6GZ4.jpg' alt='How To Install Google Market On Archos 5 Android' title='How To Install Google Market On Archos 5 Android' />267 Replies to Android USB Host Arduino How to communicate without rooting your Android Tablet or Phone. Market Helper spoof your Android device to download incompatible apps from the Android Market. VLC for Android is the best open source video and music player, fast and easy ARCHOS AND ANDROID TABLET NEWS. RK3288 ROM Pipo P1 3G LineAgeOS 14. In July 2005, Google acquired Android Inc., a company led by Andy Rubin which was working on unspecified software for mobile devices. Under the leadership of Google. Here is a selection of 5 the best Android data recovery tools for MacWindows that helps recover lost data on your Android phonestablets and SD card. Android, prononc la franaise. How To Install Google Market On Archos 5 Android' title='How To Install Google Market On Archos 5 Android' />Figure 3 To start up the Bluetooth GPS service, tap on the StartStop GPS checkbox, and wait. Youll get a message at the bottom saying Bluetooth GPS started, and the checkbox will turn green. However, the first attempt wont always be successful if that happens, the checkbox will become unchecked, and youll see Bluetooth GPS. It can take a few tries to establish a successful connection I think this is an Android issue and not an app issue, as Ive had problems with making Bluetooth connections with other devices as well. In version 1. 1, the checkbox always stays green, even if no Bluetooth connection is established thats why I went back to version 1. Figure 4 Here, a successful Bluetooth GPS connection has been made. Notice the Android icon in the status bar at top that will stay there as long as the service is active, and can be use to access this settings page at any time. There are apparently options to log the raw NMEA data from the GPS to a text file, which could be used to store track data. I prefer other apps for this purpose, so I didnt test that out. Figure 5 Heres a test of the Bluetooth GPS in action, using the free app GPS Status. You can see that theres  positionaltitude data visible at the bottom, even though no satellites are shown in the sky view at top. Every app I tested this Bluetooth GPS app with worked perfectly, including Google Maps and Bing Maps. Bing Maps was especially impressive, as I could walk from one end of my house to the other and see my position track exactly my Androids built in GPS couldnt follow my movement inside my house the same way. Other Issues Nothing major. One force close that never repeated. You have to make sure to turn on your Bluetooth first the app wont prompt you if its off. You also need to remember to turn off the service when youre done, otherwise any apps looking for GPS data will always look for the Bluetooth GPS instead of the built in GPS. No readout of satellite status number of satellites available, accuracyFinal thoughts Apart from the problems with the latest version, which I assume will be fixed soon, the app does seem to work fine. Its currently a little thin on features, and the two paid apps Ill be reviewing next have some really useful features for not a lot of extra cash. But if you absolutely need a free app, this one works perfectly fine. Appendix Setting up an external Bluetooth GPS for use with your Android unit. A link to my original post on the advantages of using an external Bluetooth GPS receiver instead of your Androids built in GPS. Here are some inexpensive external Bluetooth GPS units a search on Amazon. Bay will bring up many more After youve bought the unit, charged it up and turned it on 1. Go to Settings Wireless networks, and make sure Bluetooth is turned on. Go to the Bluetooth settings section, and have your Android unit scan for new Bluetooth devices. After it finds your Bluetooth GPS, it may ask you to enter a four digit security code for GPS units, if no code is included with your unit,  0. Your Android unit will now be paired with this Bluetooth GPS device any apps that support Bluetooth GPS will have this device listed as an option. Unless you remove this pairing, you only need to do this once. To use a Bluetooth GPS with apps that dont support it natively, youll need either the app reviewed here, or one that performs a similar function. You will also need to enable mock locations Settings Applications Development check the Allow mock locations box. DONT DISABLE THE BUILT IN GPS ON YOUR ANDROID. Some apps e. g. Google Maps, Bing Maps wont work with external Bluetooth unless you have the built in GPS enabled, even if they dont actually use the built in GPS for positions. How to communicate without rooting your Android Tablet or Phone Using Android in Industrial Automation. Intro. In the past two posts we have explained the basics of USB communication with the Arduino Uno also applicable for Arduino Mega. Galaxy Nexus to Arduino UNO via USBIn this post well put everything together and show you how to communicate between your Android application and the Arduino using nothing but the Android USB host API. Remember, this approach has nothing to do with Android ADK Unlike Android ADK, your Android device will act as the USB host, while your Arduino board will act as the USB device. For the following application to work, you will require an Android device that supports USB host mode as well as the USB host API. Most Android 3. 1 tablets will suffice some may require an USB OTG adapter. Also, the Galaxy Nexus has host mode enabled and matches the requirements you will need an USB OTG adapter however. This example consists of two parts The Android application that makes use of the USB APIA simple Android app that lets you regulate the brightness of an LED on the Arduino using a slider. It also features a button to enumerate the USB device. Firmware for the Arduino that does some serial IO with the Android app. Very basic firmware for the Arduino. An interrupt is generated when a new byte is received. The received data controls the brightness of the Arduinos on board LED. The Arduino firmware. In the main loop the firmware asserts and clears the LED pin of the Arduino PB5. Here is a shortened excerpt. PORTB 1 lt lt LED. PORTB 1 lt lt LED. During a period of 2. LED is asserted for a duration of pause1. Simply put, this is a very simple software PWM. During that time, data and consequently pause may be changed within an interrupt routine form the serial USART port. This happens when the Android side sends data to the Arduino. The interrupt routine is extremely basic. ISRUSARTRXvect attention to the name and argument here, wont work otherwise. UDR0 UDR0 needs to be read. The RX data has to be read in the ISR interrupt service routine from UDR0 have a look at the Atmega. P reference manual for further details. Since we are doing no multi buffering shenanigans the handling is extremely simple no need to call cli or anything. The rest of the code is initialization of the IO pins and UART functionality. Download the complete example here ledpwm. Controlled LED on the UNO by the firmware. The Android app. The Android application uses the basic knowledge of the preceding blog post Arduino USB transfers. During USB initialization, the Arduino USB serial converter is set up and after that, communication is done using the bulk IN endpoint of the very same serial converter. With both the aforementioned firmware installed your Arduino board and the Android application installed on your phone or tablet, you will be able to control the brightness of the Arduino Unos built in LED with a slider on your Android device. Again, please note that this will only work with devices that actually support both USB host mode hardware, kernel requirement as well as the Android USB host API Android OS requirement. The source code is available here Usb. Controller. tar. gz You may need to change the PID value in Usb. Controller. Activity. Arduino Uno Rev. 3 or higher. You can check the VIDPID value with lsusb after connecting the Arduino to your computer. Many parts of the code are probably familiar to Android SW engineers. The most interesting section is in the class Usb. Controller where the Arduino device is set up and communication is initiated. So lets have a closer look at the inner class Usb. Runnable within Usb. Controller. private class Usb. Runnable implements Runnable. Usb. Device m. Device. Usb. RunnableUsb. Device dev. m. Device dev. USB functionality is implemented. Usb. Device. Connection conn m. Usb. Manager. open. Devicem. Device. Interfacem. Device. Interface1, true. Arduino USB serial converter setup. Transfer0x. 21, 3. Transfer0x. 21, 3. Usb. Endpoint ep. IN null. Usb. Endpoint ep. OUT null. Usb. Interface usb. If m. Device. get. Interface1. for int i 0 i lt usb. If. get. Endpoint. Count i. if usb. If. Endpointi. Type Usb. Constants. USBENDPOINTXFERBULK. If. get. Endpointi. Direction Usb. Constants. USBDIRIN. IN usb. If. get. Endpointi. OUT usb. If. get. Endpointi. Send. Lock ok there should be a OUT queue, no guarantee that the byte is sent actually. Send. Lock. wait. Interrupted. Exception e. Stop. m. Connection. Handler. on. Usb. Stopped. e. print. Stack. Trace. conn. Transferep. OUT, new byte m. Data, 1, 0. if m. Stop. m. Connection. Handler. on. Usb. Stopped. After the USB interface has been claimed the Arduino USB serial converter is initialized by issuing the following control transfers. Transfer0x. 21, 3. Transfer0x. 21, 3. The first call sets the control line state, the second call sets the line encoding 9. N1. For communication, an additional thread is used to send data without blocking the Activitys main UI thread. By notifying s. Send. Lock of the Usb. Controller the data will be transferred. After submission, the thread will go into wait again. This way, even if submission takes more time than expected, the Activitys main thread will not be blocked and hence the app will not become unresponsive. Screenshot of the Android App. Also note that in the Android Manifest none of the XML style device filters are needed, since enumeration happens by the user in the app when pressing the enumerate button. Device filters and therefore automatic activity launch when connecting the Arduino are not used in this example in order to make the code simpler to comprehend. However, this could be easily implemented with a few lines of additional code. For developing this example we have used a Galaxy Nexus Phone with an USB OTG adapter cable. It has also been successfully tested with an Android Tablet, the Acer Iconia Tab A5. This post concludes the 3 Part Arduino USB communication series. Feel free to post any questions or feedbackideas in the comments section or contact us via E Mail http www. All code you find in this post can be used under GPL for your own projects. The following section About Android and USB Host again concludes why USB Host is becoming more and more important for mobile devices and points out main differences between Android ADK Android Accessory Development Kit and the Android USB Host API. EDIT control transfers for FTDI equiped Arduinos. Since we got requested a lot if the FTDI Usb Serial converter will work too, here ist the control transfer code that needs to be exchanged. No warranties though. Transfer0x. 40, 0, 0, 0, null, 0, 0 reset. Transfer0x. 40, 0, 1, 0, null, 0, 0 clear Rx. Transfer0x. 40, 0, 2, 0, null, 0, 0 clear Tx. Transfer0x. 40, 0x. Source Links. Android App Usb. Controller. tar. gzrduino main ledpwm. You may need to change the PID value in Usb. Controller. Activity. Arduino Uno Rev. 3 or higher. You can check the VIDPID value with lsusb after connecting the Arduino to your computer. About Android and USB Host. Lately it has become more and more popular to use tablets or mobile phones to communicate with the outside world over USB.