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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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Bluetooth Over-The-Air device firmware update


In this section, we will take a look at Nordic's device firmware update Android library that can be used to upload firmware on an nRF5x series based device. In nRF5x Series Nordic chips and S-series SoftDevices, you can perform OTA device firmware update. Consider, you have a device that features nRF5x SoC and you wrote an Android application to communicate with that device. Using OTA DFU library, you can pull the new firmware from the cloud to the app and wirelessly upgrade the firmware in your device. Refer to the following diagram to understand this flow:

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The latest version of Nordic’s OTA DFU library is  version 1.3.0 and can be downloaded from here https://github.com/NordicSemiconductor/Android-DFU-Library. From Android library version 1.3.0, Nordic introduced a secure device firmware update mechanism. A detailed description of BLE secure DFU bootloader can found at http://infocenter.nordicsemi.com/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.nordic.infocenter...

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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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