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A Complete Study of Chatting Room System based on

Android Bluetooth
Rahul Verma1, Ruchit Gupta2, Manas Gupta3, Rahul Singh4
Moradabad Institute of Technology, Moradabad
1

ce.rahulverma@gmail.com , 2ruchit.gupta09@gmail.com,
4
panwar.rahul44@gmail.com

Abstract-- Bluetooth chatting is an innovative approach

to the mobile world. A low power and low cost connection
is provided by the Bluetooth among mobile devices and
their accessories. It is basically an open standard for
implementing a short range wireless communication. This
application allows two Android devices to carry out twoway text chat over Bluetooth. This shows the use of
Bluetooth in terms of chatting. The paper contains design
and implementation of Bluetooth Communication by using
APIs of Android platform. The APIs wirelessly connect
applications to other Bluetooth devices, enabling point-topoint and multipoint wireless features.
Keyword:- Android, Component, Bluetooth, wireless
communication, chat room.

I. INTRODUCTION
The Android platform support for the Bluetooth
network stack. It allows a device to wirelessly exchange
data with other Bluetooth devices. The new vitality to the
mobile space has injected because of the release of
Android smart platform. Android is an operating system
based on Linux kernel. It is designed for the touch screen
mobile devices. The user interface of Android is based on
direct manipulation. The Android system provides many
Bluetooth APIs for developers to call.[1]
Bluetooth technology allows users to exchange voice
and data transmission between two or more devices. It is
basically a wireless communication technology.
Bluetooth technology is reflected in the low price, easy to
control and non-visual distance limitations. Bluetooth is
integrated into the android platform as an android mobile
network communication module. Chat room is used to
connect the Android phones into a local area network. It
helps to communicate with each other.

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By the help of the Bluetooth module, the Android

phones can be divided into client and server. Chat can be
accomplished only after the division of client and server.
It is used to initialize the connection.

Fig 1: Bluetooth chat in two android devices

Bluetooth does not need a license around the globe for

the working frequency band. In the connection
initialization phase, firstly, it starts the application and
search the Bluetooth devices. Second, it sends the signals
to the server class. After this it can run, pause and stop
the application. Third, it shows alert using setAlert
function on every changing. Server goes active and sends
the signals to other devices. Client class works to respond
the other Bluetooth device server. This allows a two-way
chat over Bluetooth. No GSM or Wi-Fi connection
required. In addition to the person-to-person chat, chat
rooms can be used to gather more than two persons at a
time.
II. B LUETOOTH ARCHITECTURE
Bluetooth is a wireless technology standard for
exchanging data over short distances. This low cost
transmission technology for the handheld devices and
various electronic products. Android Bluetooth system
contains linux kernel, Bluetooth driver, Bluetooth
protocol layers blueZ Bluetooth user library, blueZ
adaptation layer.[2]

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III. P ROCESS OF B LUETOOTH CHAT APPLICATION
i.
ii.

iii.
iv.
v.
vi.

It first checks whether the Bluetooth of the

devices is in ON/OFF mode.
If the Bluetooth of the devices is in OFF mode
then it makes the request to enable the
Bluetooth.
Perform scanning of the devices which are in
their range.
Display the list of all the devices in the range.
Select the device with which one wants to do the
chat.
If the device connects then set up the chat
session.

IV. DESIGN O F B LUETOOTH COMMUNICATION

Fig 2: Android Bluetooth structure

Bluetooth can be used to transmit asynchronous data

and synchronous language at the same time. L2C AP,
SDP, RFCOMM etc are underlying protocol layer
include a number of agreements. It provides the upper
transmission.

In the Android platform Bluetooth API is needed to

implement the communication between the Bluetooth
devices. The Bluetooth communication is based on the
unique MAC. Bluetooth devices must been paired before
using Bluetooth communication for the security purpose.
The connected devices will be shared with a
RFCOMM channel to transmit data. RFCOMM
bluetoothSocket used to accept the incoming connections
must be attached to operating system resources with the
bind method.
The process of Bluetooth communication includes
three steps:
i.

Query Bluetooth: BluetoothAdapter is used to get

the Bluetooth Activity. It is the entry-point for all
Bluetooth interaction and also it is used to discover
other Bluetooth devices. It creates the
BluetoothServerSocket
to
listen
for
communications from other devices. Bluetooth
Adapter is also used to get the Bluetooth connection
intent.[6]
The query pairing process is shown in the following
figure-

Fig 3: Relationship between Bluetooth Protocol

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iii.

Connecting Bluetooth: Request the BLUETOOTH

PERMISSION in order to perform any Bluetooth
communication, such as requesting a connection,
accepting a connection and ransferring the data.
The process of pairing connection shown in the
following diagram:

Fig 4: The pairing process

ii.

Finding devices: In this, it is needed to open the

Bluetooth user name and MAC address to pair the
Bluetooth.

Fig 5: Bluetooth pairing and Connection process

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Fig 6: Workflow of the Bluetooth Chat Room

V. DESIGN O F MODULES W ITH S AMPLE CODE

i.

Discovering Devices: Device discovery is a

scanning procedure and searches the local area for
Bluetooth enabled devices. If the Bluetooth device
is currently enabled to be discoverable then only it
will respond to the discovery request. If the device
is discoverable then it will respond by sharing some
information such as device name, class and its
unique MAC address. First time connection request
automatically presented to the user. The information
can be read using the Bluetooth APIs.
Difference between paired and being connected are:
Paired
Two devices
are aware of each others
existence.
They have a
shared link-key that can be
used for the authentication.
Capable of
establishing an encrypted
connection with each other.

To be connected
Devices
currently share an
RFCOMM channel.
Transmit
data with each
other.

Sample code : startDiscovery method is used in the

class of BluetoothAdapater. It executes asynchronously,
so we do not consider the thread is blocked. Whole
process takes about 12 seconds[3]. Then register a
BroadcastReceiver object to receive the Bluetooth device
information. Then filter ACTION_FOUND intent to
obtain the tailed information for each remote device.
// Create a BroadcastReceiver for ACTION_FOUND
private final BroadcastReceiver mReceiver = new
BroadcastReceiver() {
public void onReceive(Context context, Intent intent) {
String action = intent.getAction();
// When discovery finds a device
if (BluetoothDevice.ACTION_FOUND.equals(action))
{
// Get the BluetoothDevice object from the Intent
BluetoothDevice
device
=
intent.getParcelableExtra(BluetoothDevice.EXTRA_DE
VICE);
// Add the name and address to an array adapter to
show in a ListView
mArrayAdapter.add(device.getName() + "\n" +
device.getAddress()); }}};

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Paired Device: getBondedDevices() method is used
in the pairing a Bluetooth device in the class
BluetoothAdapter to obtain a paired device. This
method returns the array of Bluetooth device to
distinguish between each paired device.
Sample code:

ii.

iv.

iii.

Establishing: For the establishment of a Bluetooth

communication must go through :

Get local Bluetooth devices;

Find the remote device;
Pairing;

Server Design: Server is needed to connect the two

devices
because
it
holds
an
open
bluetoothserversocket. It is designed to listen for
incoming connection requests.

Set<BluetoothDevice>
pairedDevices
=
mBluetoothAdapter.getBondedDevices();
// If there are paired devices
if (pairedDevices.size() > 0) {
// Loop through paired devices
for (BluetoothDevice device : pairedDevices) {
// Add the name and address to an array adapter to
show in a ListView
mArrayAdapter.add(device.getName() + "\n" +
device.getAddress());}}

v.

Connect devices; and

Transfer data.

Call
listenUsingRfcommWithServiceRecord(String,
UUID) to get Bluetooth server socket.
String = Name of the service,
UUID = sign of connection
Call the method accept() to listen for connection
request and return a connection on Bluetooth
socket bluetoothsocket.
Call the method close() after listening to a
connection to close the listener.

Client Design: Bluetooth Device object is used to

initialize a connection. Obtain the Bluetooth socket
and
initialize
the
connection
by
the
BluetoothDevice object.

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Fig 7: Detailed design of Bluetooth Chat Room[4]

VI. ADVANTAGE O F B LUETOOTH CHAT IN ANDROID

i.
ii.
iii.

iv.
v.
vi.
vii.

Low-power & low-cost wireless connection.

Open
standard
short-range
wireless
communication.
Bluetooth offers higher level service profiles,
such as
FTP-like file servers, voice
transport, and more.[8]
Innovative approach to the mobile world.
No GSM or Wi-Fi connection required.
Bluetooth does not need a license around the
globe for the working frequency band.
Low cost transmission technology for the
handheld devices.

VII. LIMITATIONS O F C HATTING ROOM SYSTEM IN

ANDROID B LUETOOTH
i.
ii.

iii.

Strangers can communicate with others using

Bluetooth devices.
Bluejacking, refers to people who send
irrelevant, surprising, or shocking messages to
strangers in their vicinity.
Limited range to chat.[7]

VIII.

CONCLUSION AND F UTURE W ORKS

The internet age of today chat room is of a great

entertainment features project. Most of the internet user
likes it.

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Android provides the design and realization of
chatting room system is good for developing Bluetooth
network application and Bluetooth agreement. The
system have realized the broadcast and private chat
between mobile phones. But few still need to further
improve the usability and functionality of the system like
richer input format, the expression of information,
pictures, information transmission etc.

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