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Glad to see the new API out. Should greatly help with ANT+ Android development.

I have not tried anything yet just downloaded and skimmed the docs trying to work out a plan of action for IpSensorMan / IpBike. I want to update to allow multi app support that is after all why I wrote IpSensorMan. It looks like there is not currently any support in the plugin API for the bike related Profiles. Can I use both API's simultaneously? If I can then I will look to use the new API to add support for the control profile which is the next thing I was looking to add support for anyway. I can then slowly move the other stuff over till I am only using the new APIs. If I can not use the APIs simultaneously then an indication as to the time frame for adding support for the Bike related profile would be appreciated so I can decide whether to delay doing the control profile work or if I should just press on and do it the old way.

Ifor      

Great to see you looking at the new API already - it definitely has many upgrades that will benefit you. As the old API provides full raw access to ANT, unfortunately there is no way to use both API's simultaneously.

Providing the bike related profiles is one of our priorities (so existing fitness apps can switch over), and so generally developers should wait for the new API to include these. As per today's news (http://www.thisisant.com/news/new-ant-android-sdk-enables-development-of-simple-unrestricted-apps/), you should expect the next two sets of profiles to be available before the end of next month.

The initial Bike Power release will include basic power information. For an application like yours, which uses more advanced information, you will have to still decode the information yourself. You can use the ANT API to acquire a channel yourself (contact us for access to the ANT+ network), or we are looking at adding a raw data stream to each device API.

-Rohan      

OK thanks for the information. I think my best plan in that case initially will be to put in a parallel implementation in IpSensorMan which can be switched so I can use the legacy code or the new code. Once the basic bike stuff is in most people can use the new setup and potentially get the multi app benefit. The more advanced power users and anyone else needing something not possible with the new apis can stick with the legacy setup. This should let me transition fairly smoothly over a period of time.

Good luck getting some of the bigger apps to transition over, getting them to just rebuild for ANT usb seems to of been hard let alone a re-design for the new API's      

"you should expect the next two sets of profiles to be available before the end of next month."

Are the two new sets of profiles still going to be available at the end of June?

Will they include support for the Garmin GSC-10 bike senor?

I assume "public abstract class AntPlusBikeSpdCadCommonPcc" will be extended with some concrete implementations?

thanks

Sam      

Great thanks for the fast reply      

Hi to all,

I am very interested to test the new beta bike profiles, as the most recent update of the ANT Radio Service seems to raise many exceptions in my uBike application, which is using the "legacy" ANT Android API.

Regards

Peter Bruinink
Plusot Biketech