[chbot] Starting point for Smartphone / Bluetooth / uP project

[Mark Atherton]

Hello all,

Just starting on a new project and hope someone can help with a 
decent starting point.

The project will have an Android phone with some sliders, push 
buttons and status indicators. Associated data will be sent via 
bluetooth to a dsPIC which will control PWMs and digital outputs. A 
timer on the phone will periodically fetch status from the dsPIC to 
update display indicators.

Not fussed at all about the hardware or the dsPIC programming, but I 
am hoping to find a decent tutorial about starting Android 
development (Java or C will be fine), and an example project that has 
full source code, and associated builder resources to allow a simple 
GUI to be constructed.

There seem to be plenty of similar projects on the 'net, but most 
only seem to provide pre-compiled applications for the phone. A 
decent tutorial and associated full development source code is really 
what I am looking for.

Pointers to any appropriate projects will be most appreciated.

Thanks,

Mark