TEC-COMM

Universal hobby project remote control app.

TEC-COMM is an Android open-source project whose goal is to provide a unifying interface for communicating with electronic projects. It offers a wide range of connection options, including reconfigurable Bluetooth and TCP/IP. Data can be represented as String, Hex, or Binary, and arranged into pre-established commands that can be easily repeated or tweaked.

TEC-COMM has several unique features:

Communications options

TEC-COMM brings an object-oriented approach to the problem of expanding communications options. Any network interface available to android that can stream bytes is compatible with the custom Connections framework built into TEC-COMM. By identifying operations common to all or most communications on a conceptual level, all Connections in code may be abstracted to an application-frienly programming interface. These common operations are:

Connecting
Disconnecting
Sending Data
Receiving Data

In the code, network interfaces are made compatible by writing a subclass of the "Connection" class. Each subclass provides the implementations necessary for establishing connections and transferring data, while complying with the API defined by the Connection superclass. Due to this, Connections of differing types (e.g. Bluetooth and TCP/IP) need only be treated separately in code during construction, after which they may be treated identically.

Multithreading

As new Connections are established, they are assigned TransferManagers, which exist in the ConnectionService and are in charge of asynchronously sending and receiving data. A TransferManager is destroyed when its corresponding Connection is disconnected.

If this seems like a project that you would be interested in contributing to, feel free to contact me at nicholastmosher@gmail.com