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

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

EAn — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:48:03 GMT

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

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

Steven — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:30:57 GMT

Perhaps this is closer to what you are looking for...

microBlinky for the NRF52

BARE METAL ARM PROGRAMMING ON NORDIC NRF52832 BLE SOC

Best of luck,

Steve

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

EAn — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:26:38 GMT

Thank you SCrowe. the https://www.nordicsemi.com/DocLib/Content/SDK_Doc/nRF5_SDK/v15-2-0/nrf51_getting_started is useful, but I had already got around that. I was looking for something more fundamental but deep enough for one to know how to write good code for a basic application and to know what are the bare minimum components, etc....

I'm already acquainted with SES, which is also one of the tools I'm using for development with Nordic's silicon.

Good luck with your work.

Regards,

//E

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

EAn — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 16:23:43 GMT

Hello Terje,

Thank you for your reply. However, your reply is too vague and didn't answer my questions. Of course I have read most getting started guides and tutorials. There's just an apparent vacuum of information regarding what components from the Nordic SDK library are minimally necessary to write user applications.... What does it do, etc... Everything seems a bit too convoluted with Nordic SDK, you open a source file (a main.c from an example for instance) and you never get to the bottom of it because if you follow the definitions and references of the different objects there's always more and more and more, and you never get to fully understand the whole thing! I was going to use Zephyr OS or Mbed OS for the ease of development, but unfortunately there is no support for Bluetooth Mesh there yet. So I'm stuck with an SDK that seems like it's gonna take me too long to study and master in this fashion, which is "go fish" with the API and Docs, without a solid base like: "OK this is what you need to know in order to successfully implement an application for this silicon using our SDK..." ...

I know how to use the SES, my issue is with the SDK API and the humongous amount of components and libs and sublibs the one faces and I'd like to just understand the basics in order to develop at least the basic functions...

Thank you, once again,

Regards,

//E

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

Steven — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:51:57 GMT

Can I add this also:
Documentation library - Getting Started

These may also be of interest:
cross-platform-nrf-development-tutorial
devzone:create-a-new-project-in-segger-embedded-studio

I am currently figuring out how to create a project for a custom board based on an SDK example...

Steve.

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

tesc — Thu, 10 Jan 2019 15:27:21 GMT

Hi,

There are many answers on this topic already here on DevZone, for example in the thread Getting started for beginners.

Regards,
Terje