Is there really no GUI or easy way to create custom Bluetooth services?

[Glen M]

I'm creating a new product that needs one or more custom services using an nrf52840 and the nrf52 SDK version 17. I'm surprised at how much stuff has to be done manually - with SiLabs they have a GUI to get you started. It looked like nrfGoStudio might work for this, but it turns out that's for the old Bluetooth devices, not the nrf52 series.

I got the uart demo working in long range mode and I found this tutorial for custom services: https://github.com/bjornspockeli/custom_ble_service_example

So I think I can get where I need to from here, but I thought it would be easier than this... am I missing some resource where I can point and click my way to a code skeleton, or am I really on the fastest path?

Thanks,

Glen

[EAkeila]

I totally agree with Jared. It's much easier to create/update Services and characteristics in SiLabs. Not sure if there is any recent updates on NRF libraries to reduce the amount of manual work!