nRF Connect for Mobile

Nordic Semiconductor ASA

About this app

nRF Connect for Mobile is a powerful generic tool that allows you to scan, advertise and explore your Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices and communicate with them. nRF Connect supports number of Bluetooth SIG adopted profiles together with Device Firmware Update profile (DFU) from Nordic Semiconductors and Mcu Manager on Zephyr and Mynewt.

Features:
- Scans for Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices
- Parses advertisement data
- Shows RSSI graph, allows export to CSV and Excel formats
- Connects to a connectible the Bluetooth LE device
- Discoveries and parses services and characteristics
- Allows to read and write characteristics
- Allows to enable and disable notifications and indications
- Supports Reliable Write
- Parses number of characteristics adopted by Bluetooth SIG
- Bluetooth LE advertising (Android 5+ required)
- Read and update PHY (Android 8+ required)
- GATT Server configuration
- Supports Device Firmware Update (DFU) profile which let the user to upload a new application, SoftDevice or a bootloader over-the-air (OTA)
- Supports McuMgr, profile that lets the user control and update Zephyr-based devices
- Supports the Nordic UART Service
- Allow to record and replay common operations using Macros
- Allows to perform automated tests defined in XML file on Bluetooth LE devices.
Visit the GitHub page: https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/Android-nRF-Connect for more information about automated tests.

Note:
- Supported on Android version 4.3 or later.
- nRF5x Development kits can be ordered from http://www.nordicsemi.com/eng/Buy-Online.

Works well with nRF Logger application, that will store your logs in case something bad happens with nRF Connect.
Download nRF Logger from: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=no.nordicsemi.android.log

Ratings and reviews

This app is awesome. I lost a little white Nest temperature sensor (BLE) that I keep in the attic, it fell in the middle of the attic's white insulation, I spent 1 hour digging around the insulation with no luck, I gotta hopeless... but using this app, it took me just 5 minutes to find the sensor, I just configured the app filter to show me the strong signals and I knew the sensor sends data every 10 seconds. So, I just moved my phone around looking for the right signal and its strength.

Heard of those little R2D2 droids from Disney Galaxy's Edge? They respond to BLE beacons at the park and from other droids. My son desperately wanted his to do that at home. With this app i was able to do a Bluetooth scan, copy the R2D2 broadcasting its own beacon, then play that broadcast back from my own mobile. i can leave this app running all day long with no battery drain. My son's R2D2 chatters periodically all day long. Thank you so much for this easy to use app!

Hi, for last few days I am trying to using app to do OTA but, it's showing DFU file error everytime with my android phone (Redmi Note 4) but the same app works well with my iphone. Can there be any issues with Android because I tried with different android phone causing same issue. Can there be fixed soon..?

What's new

12.08.2022 - version 4.25.4
- Migration to Android 13
- Option to write characteristic values using Big Endian order
- Parser for Pulse Oximeter characteristics
- DFU improvements
- Several bugs fixed