Qorvo Nearby Interactions For Android

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Hello!

We are designing a device based on DWM3001C module. It’s planned to work with both Android and iOS.

We already tested the Qorvo Nearby Interaction demo for iOS and managed to build our app around that. It works as expected without any problems.

Now we are moving to implementing support for Android and have found a similar app on the Play Market.
The problem is that there is no information on which exact FW we should use for the Android version. We tried testing it with multiple versions from different SDKs, but couldn’t get it to work.

Is there any chance we might get:

  • Info on which exact FW should be used with the Android demo?
  • Sources for the Android demo (you shared sources for the iOS version, so I’d expect to see sources for Android as well, but I didn’t manage to find them)?
  • Sources for the FW used for the Android demo?

If required, we are ready to sign an NDA to get this info.

Regards,
Oleksandr Lisovyi

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Android uses the Fira UCI interface, which today only has usb attached devices from Qorvo like, 3001cdk, Murata Type2ab.

Adding OOB on top of uci is no small feat.

But this app say RTLS devices which is different than what Apple NI does. ( in my opinion)

The Apple interface inside the Qorvo devices like cdk think they are the only user of the UWB hardware , and currently cannot share

The UCI interface also thinks it is the only user and cannot share.

By share I mean sequentially not concurrently.

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Thanks for your reply @rexxdad !

That’s definitely not a simple task, completely agree with you!

Our initial aim is just to make Android work somehow. At this point, we try to make our app based on the sasodoma/uwb-ranging project and SDK 1.1.1.
The next stage will be trying to run both Android (fira) and iOS stacks together (sequentially).

I was hoping to get some support from Qorvo on this. At least to get some info on the Android version of the Qorvo Nearby Interactions app. It looks a bit strange that they released the app but did not provide any info on how it should be used

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I am doing more work on that too

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Hi @OleksandrLisovyi,

Please see this post which is still relevant: UWB Android APP - #3 by LC_Qorvo

For Android, unfortunately, you will have to develop your own app.

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Thanks @akash !

Do you have any info on whether Qorvo plans to release a new version of this app that supports new features, similar to what they have in the iOS version? Probably together with the new SDK?