Kotlin BLE Library

[mike_scriven]

Hi,
I am busy researching the best ways to communicate with Ble devices through an app. I added the dependencies of Nordics Kotlin Ble library into a new kotlin project and then realized that classes like BleScanner(Context) and BleScanResultAggregator do not exist (even though these were the classes used to display how the "Ble Scanner" implementation should work). I also downloaded all the code from the Kotlin-BLE-Library and tried to open the app_client project but got the error: 

• No matching variant of no.nordicsemi.android.gradle:plugins:1.11.1 was found. The consumer was configured to find a library for use during runtime, compatible with Java 11, packaged as a jar, and its dependencies declared externally, as well as attribute 'org.gradle.plugin.api-version' with value '8.5' but:

Is there any documentation online to using this library?
Can anyone help me fix this error/get started with the SDK?

[mike_scriven]

I just realized though - Isn't this a Kotlin Library?
(I am new to kotlin and still learning stuff about Android)
Why does it rely on JAVA?

[Karl Ylvisaker]

Hello,

mike_scriven said:

Ahh awesome!
I will try it out with Java 17 thanks so much!

No problem at all, we are happy to help! :) 

mike_scriven said:

I just realized though - Isn't this a Kotlin Library?
(I am new to kotlin and still learning stuff about Android)
Why does it rely on JAVA?

Yes, it is a Kotlin library, and Kotlin requires Java - Kotlin has 100% interoperability with Java, and compiles to JVM bytecode, which is why it requires java.

You can read more in-depth about this in this stackoverflow thread :) 

Best regards,
Karl

[mike_scriven]

Ahh ok I see.
Thanks a lot

[Karl Ylvisaker]

No problem at all! 

Please do not hesitate to open another ticket if you should encounter any other issues or questions in the future! :) 

Best regards,
Karl