receive Character using Android phone from arduino

Question

I worked this code to receive a single letter of the arduino I can not see any response on the phone text viewer when I want arduino sends the letter 'A' shows me the word 'ON'and if Send 'Z' shows me the word in the text viewer off

Note that the connection between the Android phone arduino been successfully and Android phone sends to arduino but it did not receive

class Ahmed extends Thread {

    public void run() {
        for (; ; ) {
            try {
                int bytesAvailable = btSocket.getInputStream().available();

                byte []packetBytes= new byte[bytesAvailable];
                if (bytesAvailable > 0) {
                    tb.setText(bytesAvailable+ "ok");
                    btSocket.getInputStream().read(packetBytes);

                             for(int i=0; i<bytesAvailable;i++)
                             {
                                if (packetBytes[i]==65)
                                     tb.setText("ON");
                                 else if (packetBytes[i] ==90)
                                     tb.setText("off");
                             }
                       }

            } catch (Exception e) {

            }


        }
    }
}

arduino code

   #include<SoftwareSerial.h>
    void setup() {
   Serial3.begin(9600);
  pinMode(13,OUTPUT);
     digitalWrite(13,LOW);
       }

   void loop() {

    char x=Serial3.read();
     if(x=='A')
    {
     digitalWrite(13,HIGH);
      Serial3.print('A');
}
 if(x=='Z')
{digitalWrite(13,LOW);
 Serial3.print('Z');
}
}

Line 10 of arduino tries to read a char (blocking operation?) - android never sends anything. ?? — ABuckau, Sep 27 '16 at 11:13
android phone send and there is no problem and I received from Serial Monitor but the problem is in the receiving from android @ABuckau — Ahmed Safaa, Sep 27 '16 at 11:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 27 '16 at 11:51

you are updating textview from a thread, it must be throwing some exception but as you have not printed anything in your catch block you are not getting any output or error or anything, always remember, you cannot update views from any thread other than UI thread.

        try {
            int bytesAvailable = btSocket.getInputStream().available();

            byte []packetBytes= new byte[bytesAvailable];
            if (bytesAvailable > 0) {
                tb.setText(bytesAvailable+ "ok");
                btSocket.getInputStream().read(packetBytes);

                         for(int i=0; i<bytesAvailable;i++)
                         {
                            if (packetBytes[i]==65)
                                 tb.setText("ON");
                             else if (packetBytes[i] ==90)
                                 tb.setText("off");
                         }
                   }

        } catch (Exception e) {
         // ADD THIS TO SEE ANY ERROR 
         e.printStackTrace();            
        }

if you are running this thread inside activity class then you can run this

        runOnUiThread(new Runnable() {
            @Override
            public void run() {
                tb.setText("ON")
            }
        });

else you have to implement some mechanism using broadcast receiver or interface for passing the data to your activity/fragment for updating the textview inside runOnUiThread.

receive Character using Android phone from arduino

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