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Published inApr 2017
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Muhammad Usama bin Aftab
Muhammad Usama bin Aftab
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Muhammad Usama bin Aftab

Muhammad Usama bin Aftab is a software engineer at one of the leading solar lighting manufacturers in North America. At Carmanah Technologies, he works closely with the product development and management teams to develop software for embryonic technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy. He also focuses on full-stack development using Angular 2 and Java. His main areas of interest range from mobile application development to information security. Mr. Aftab is an alumnus of the University of Victoria, Canada, where he received his master's degree in applied science in electrical and computer engineering. Mr. Aftab has experience in Android, iOS, and cross-platform gaming technologies (such as Unity 3D), which led him to coauthor Learning Android Intents for Packt in 2014.
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Classic Bluetooth was famous for its short distance connectivity in a cellular phone. This communication was a breakthrough over conventional IR communication as it did not require line-of-sight communication. The result was marvelous. It got famous among the cellular phone users and almost every vendor started to support Classic Bluetooth. The idea of the Bluetooth was simple enough for any lay person. You did not require any technical knowledge in order to send files and pictures to someone else's device. All you need to do is to enter the same passcode on two devices before pairing them.

It is not untrue to say that the success of Classic Bluetooth was marked by cellular industry. Users of Bluetooth did not require any additional Bluetooth hardware, rather their personal phones contained the built-in facility to connect to another Bluetooth device. Before the concept of Bluetooth Low Energy, the main hardware for Bluetooth communication was a cellular phone...

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Published in: Apr 2017Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781786461087

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Muhammad Usama bin Aftab

Muhammad Usama bin Aftab is a software engineer at one of the leading solar lighting manufacturers in North America. At Carmanah Technologies, he works closely with the product development and management teams to develop software for embryonic technologies such as Bluetooth Low Energy. He also focuses on full-stack development using Angular 2 and Java. His main areas of interest range from mobile application development to information security. Mr. Aftab is an alumnus of the University of Victoria, Canada, where he received his master's degree in applied science in electrical and computer engineering. Mr. Aftab has experience in Android, iOS, and cross-platform gaming technologies (such as Unity 3D), which led him to coauthor Learning Android Intents for Packt in 2014.
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