Need help for finding the right dev environment

[Binu]

I'm looking to build a product which require an Android board with relay and BLE 5. I am very new to this and so far I have been playing with Raspberry Pi where the BLE and wifi is not that strong. Can you help me on how to move forward on this?

[Kenneth]

Hi,

 

As already mentioned by others here. It's not possible to run any Android on any nRF chip, you may however run the nRF chip as a BLE controller, and for instance interface the nRF over an HCI interface as described in below link. However the actual OS (Android, Linux or other) must be run on a third party chip that support it:

https://devzone.nordicsemi.com/b/blog/posts/nrf5x-support-within-the-zephyr-project-rtos 

In general, if you want to start developing with nRF devices I recommend to check out the two Getting started sections:
(generic hardware and software required) http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.gs/dita/gs/gs.html?cp=1 
(sdk specific getting started) http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/topic/com.nordic.infocenter.sdk5.v15.0.0/nrf51_getting_started.html?cp=4_0_0_1 

We do have a youtube tutorial series you can take a look at.

In the tutorials we take a look at the basics of using SEGGER Embedded Studio (SES) with the nRF5 SDK. The videos will cover how to open your first project, adding your free license, how the build configurations work, debugging etc. You can watch the complete playlist for the entire introduction to SEGGER Embedded Studio, or navigate to the video most relevant for you.

Nordic SDK don't support Eclipse out of the box, so I recommend to check out SES, which have a free commercial license with Nordic. 

[Binu]

Hi Kenneth,

Thanks for sharing this info. Can we have a phone call? 

[Kenneth]

I updated the previous reply with some more information, unfortunately I don't think I can setup a phone call.