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Hallo

When is the next release planned?

Andres      

I can not provide exact schedule information at this time, however it will be weeks rather than months away. Which profiles do you require?      

I require the bicycle speed and cadence profile.      

http://www.thisisant.com/developer/resources/downloads/#documents_tab

Note: you must be registered ANT Adopter to access to this download repository.      

Thanks, but I meant the new API 4.0 (http://www.thisisant.com/developer/ant/ant-in-android)      

I'm also interested in this profile. Are there any news?      

I have to refresh this topic ...

Firstly as a developer application Locus, where I used for quite a long time older API for access to ANT sensors, I have to congratulate to step you did in new API 4.0+. Finally it's usable without spending hours and hours and playing with bytes ...

Anyway recent update to ANT Service 4 completely broke my previous implementation and on most devices, users reports some weird exceptions in communication (like cannot connect to ANT service etc.). So I decided to rewrote whole ANT handling to new system.

Heart rate and Stride sensors seems to work now (even there are some problems with connection over USB stick and also your API crash (even a sample application) on Xperia X8 (with Android 2.1).

Anyway even that in API are already included classes AntPlusBikeCadencePcc and others, all these classes that use Bike speed/cadence sensors aren't public!!. Because Locus needs support for these sensors (as they worked for all users for almost year), I'm now stuck on update and 1. have to wait till you update your API, or 2. write in update "Sorry, ANT not work".

So, I need to know some date, when is expected update with support for bike speed/cadence sensors. It's nice that you included Geocaching sensor (which was almost impossible to use in previous API), but these bike sensors are much more required!!

thanks for answer      

Existing apps should keep working with the new ANT Radio Service (and the old API). One change that may impact apps is that attempts to write a command will not block until the response is received from ANT, but your apps should have been waiting anyway.
What issues are you seeing?      

I'd like to beta-test plugins (cadence, speed). My app is not published yet, so it wouldn't hurt anybody.
The new API is way better than the old, but for me it was a big surprise. Publishing a beta (w/o any commitment to the signatures of the interfaces) would be nice.      

It's now August, any news on this? We're interested in the power, speed and cadence plugins. Thanks.