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BluePiano: A New Android Bluetooth Input Method

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BluePiano Bluetooth Input Method for Android The input method BluePiano extends Android with Bluetooth data acquisition . This new input method provides a Bluetooth-enabled soft-keyboard . This soft-keyboard captures Bluetooth data and forwards the received data to input fields of arbitrary apps. The data appears as entered by the user (watch the video on YouTube). BluePiano is typically used for barcode scanning with external Bluetooth barcode-scanners or for generic data acquisition tasks (e.g. to capture raw external GPS or medical device data). English, German, French, Russian and Swedish keyboard layouts are available. BluePiano is easy to use and provides you with connectivity feedback in the notification bar. For backup purposes BluePiano is also able to scan barcodes using camera barcode scanners (using the built-in or an external camera scanner app). BluePiano works with all Bluetooth SPP devices (Bluetooth devices supporting the Serial Port Profile, RFCOMM)....

Android Bluetooth Reader, Keyboard Wedge

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In the past few months TEC-IT developed an  Android App for data acquisition with Bluetooth and TCP . The good feedback of the Android community motivated us to further enhance this app. The result: an universal data acquisition app including keyboard wedge functionality. The app is named GetBlue . The final version is available as slightly restricted freeware as well as commercial application. Here are the highlights: Android Keyboard Wedge / Virtual Keyboard : Captured device data can be entered into any application. Supported Input Devices :  Bluetooth SPP/RFCOMM, TCP (e.g. RFID controllers), HTTP applications and camera scanners apps like the ZXing Barcode Scanner. Supported Data-Sinks : Bluetooth SPP/RFCOMM, plain TCP, HTPP via Get and Post, Google Docs Spreadsheets, File. Data Acquisition Proxy  / Data Switchboard: Acquired data can be forwarded to any supported data-sink. Universal Data Acquisition App Use GetBlue like an universal data switchboa...