The Bluetooth® developer community is consistently breaking new barriers and repeatedly pushing the limits of wireless connectivity. To support and encourage this spirit of innovation, each year, the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) releases new developer resources. For your coding convenience, we’ve assembled a list of the five most important developer resources to arrive online in 2019.
Bluetooth Mesh Models: A Technical Overview
In this detailed technical paper, Bluetooth® Developer Relations Manager Martin Woolley provides a guided tour of the Bluetooth mesh models, taking an in-depth look at the building blocks critical to Bluetooth mesh interoperability.
Bluetooth Direction Finding: A Technical Overview
This comprehensive overview examines the new direction finding feature included in the latest version of the Bluetooth® Core Specification. Learn the details behind how two new Bluetooth direction finding methods can enable location services solutions that support high-accuracy direction finding.
Bluetooth LE Security Study Guide
This self-study education resource provides a better understanding of the security features that Bluetooth® LE possesses and see how they work. Also, gain hands-on experience writing code which exploits some of the most important Bluetooth LE security features.
How to Make Wearables Bluetooth Mesh Provisioners
In this step-by-step study guide, learn how to build an app on a smartwatch that can provision, configure, and control a Bluetooth® mesh network. This study guide also introduces you to the most fundamental Bluetooth mesh technical concepts and helps you learn about the mesh proxy node and proxy protocol in detail.
An Introduction to Bluetooth Beacons
This recently updated self-study guide looks at the theory and practice of developing Bluetooth® beacons and integrating them into existing products and applications, and new updates outline how to implement Swift on an iOS platform.
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What's new in Bluetooth v5.4: An overview
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Low Energy Audio – Incoming Call Over Media (Multi-Device)
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Bluetooth ESL – The Global Standard for the Electronic Shelf Label Market
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Bluetooth® Core Specification Version 5.4 - Technical Overview
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Integrating Memfault with Blecon Bluetooth Devices
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Best Practices for Using a Standalone Auracast™ Transmitter
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Auracast™ Broadcast Audio Introduces New Opportunities for Product Developers & Public Locations
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The Bluetooth® Low Energy Primer
Are you new to Bluetooth Low Energy? Learn about its constituent parts, features, and how it works.
Bluetooth® Technology for Linux Developers
Learn how to use the interprocess communication system D-Bus and the BlueZ APIs to create Bluetooth applications for Linux computers.
How to Do Stuff with Bluetooth® Technology
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Bluetooth® Core Specification Version 5.3 Feature Enhancements
Bluetooth® Core Specification version 5.3 includes several feature enhancements with the potential to improve…
Designing and Developing Bluetooth® Internet Gateways
Learn about Bluetooth internet gateways, how to make them secure and scalable, and design and implement your own working prototype gateway and web application for use with either Bluetooth LE Peripherals or with Bluetooth mesh networks.
An Introduction to Bluetooth Low Energy for Swift Developers
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