Android BLE: writing >20 bytes characteristics missing the last byte array - bluetooth-lowenergy

Question

I have been implementing the module to send the bytes in chunks, 20 bytes each onto the MCU device via BLE. When it comes to writing the bytes more than 60 bytes and so on, the last chunk of the bytes ( usually less than 20 bytes) is often missed. Hence, the MCU device cannot get the checksum and write the value. I have modified the call back to Thread.sleep(200) to change it but it sometimes works on writing 61 bytes or sometimes not. Would you please tell me are there any synchronous method to write the bytes in chunks ? The below is my working :
#Override
public void onCharacteristicWrite(BluetoothGatt gatt,
BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic, int status) {
try {
Thread.sleep(300);
if (status != BluetoothGatt.GATT_SUCCESS) {
disconnect();
return;
}
if(status == BluetoothGatt.GATT_SUCCESS) {
System.out.println("ok");
broadcastUpdate(ACTION_DATA_READ, mReadCharacteristic, status);
}
else {
System.out.println("fail");
broadcastUpdate(ACTION_DATA_WRITE, characteristic, status);
}
} catch (Exception e) {
// TODO Auto-generated catch block
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
public synchronized boolean writeCharacteristicData(BluetoothGattCharacteristic characteristic ,
byte [] byteResult ) {
if (mBluetoothAdapter == null || mBluetoothGatt == null) {
return false;
}
boolean status = false;
characteristic.setValue(byteResult);
characteristic.setWriteType(BluetoothGattCharacteristic.WRITE_TYPE_NO_RESPONSE);
status = mBluetoothGatt.writeCharacteristic(characteristic);
return status;
}
private void sendCommandData(final byte [] commandByte) {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
if(commandByte.length > 20 ){
final List<byte[]> bytestobeSent = splitInChunks(commandByte);
for(int i = 0 ; i < bytestobeSent.size() ; i ++){
for(int k = 0 ; k < bytestobeSent.get(i).length ; k++){
System.out.println("LumChar bytes : "+ bytestobeSent.get(i)[k] );
}
BluetoothGattService LumService = mBluetoothGatt.getService(A_SERVICE);
if (LumService == null) { return; }
BluetoothGattCharacteristic LumChar = LumService.getCharacteristic(AW_CHARACTERISTIC);
if (LumChar == null) { System.out.println("LumChar"); return; }
//Thread.sleep(500);
writeCharacteristicData(LumChar , bytestobeSent.get(i));
}
}else{
....

Answer 1

You need to wait for the onCharacteristicWrite() callback to be invoked before sending the next write. The typical solution is to make a job queue and pop a job off the queue for each callback you get to onCharacteristicWrite(), onCharacteristicRead(), etc.
In other words, you can't do it in a for loop unfortunately, unless you want to set up some kind of lock that waits for the callback before going on to the next iteration. In my experience a job queue is a cleaner general-purpose solution though.