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The best source of documentation for getting started developing applications with Nordic SDKs

Greetings,

I'm fairly new to developing with Nordic ICs using the SDK, I have previously developed for some nRF51x MCUs using some modules that had an Arduino library that abstracted the whole Softdevice. Therefore I find it a bit daunting the amount of components required to setup and run what I would assume to be simple code and procedures. When I open an example from the nRF5 SDK or Mesh SDK SES opens a lot of project items and I begin to wonder if all that is really necessary and how can I cut to the chase and just start writing my own code if I don't want to initially customize every detail of the BT and radio Stack....

My question is: Where can I clearly learn what are the bare minimum components for an application, what does each component do, where should I write my application, etc...? Basic, clear information for people not acquainted to Nordic's way of coding firmware. I'm coding for nRF52840 and nRF52832 for mesh applications that will also interface via GATT Proxy, and read sensors via I2C, UART, SPI. I wouldn't have much problem doing this in the old platform I used before (Arduino, MicroPython, ....) but writing bare metal is a bit overwhelming as there is a lot to take in and know which buttons should I leave alone, and which I can freely play with...

Hope I made some sense.

Thank you very much for all assistance!

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  • Thank you Steve,

    Indeed it seems that is closer to what I was looking for, I'm reading it now... One of the paragraphs describes the issue I was trying to relay:

    "The catch: these examples are quite complex. For example, blinky, a sample app that flashes the onboard LEDs, is made up of 21 C files, 100 include folders, three Makefiles, and a couple of linker scripts. The primary Makefile that describes blinky weighs in at 219 lines of code. Ouch!...(...)"

    Regards,

    //E

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