Designing the Tracking App

As already indicated, in this section, we will be designing an app for both Android and iOS platforms, which listens for RSSI updates from a broadcasting iTag sensor and uses these values to predict the distance of the iTag from the receiver.

Our development pre-requisites and setup remain exactly similar to those defined in Chapter 3, Building a Service Explorer App.

Android

We begin by creating an empty project in the Android Studio. We have chosen the name AndroidiTagPersonalTracker; feel free to be creative with your project's name. We have already done this exercise in Chapter 2, Setting Up; hence, we will not be covering that here again.

When you are creating any Android-based Bluetooth...