I want my app to auto connect to my nrf51822 device

[delee]

How do I make my phone to auto connect to my nrf51822 device when it is within range ? I dont want to keep having to tap connect on my app. (android and IOS)

[Hung Bui]

Hi Delee,

On Android you can set autoconnect = true when calling [BluetoothDevice->connectGatt.](developer.android.com/.../BluetoothDevice.html, boolean, android.bluetooth.BluetoothGattCallback))

There is no autoconnect option for iOS but what you can do is to call connectPeripheral() whenever you got disconnected from the device. The connectPeripheral command has no timeout.

[Maansson]

I have been having some trouble making this work on Android. Should the autoconnect work on all Android phones? Because changing the variable doesn't really seem to make much of a change in my case.