Xiaomi Mi Band is the world’s cheapest and branded fitness tracker. So why don’t we do some experiments so that we can make the Mi Band do what we say for a change?

I’ll be doing this code session for Android using Android Studio, hope others can understand the basics

Step 1
Firs of all we start a new empty project. And add 4 buttons. This is to test 4 basic functions of the Mi Band. Then initialize the buttons and ready the the setOnclick listners.

Step 2
Add Bluetooth Permissions in the Manifestfile, else you wont be able to connect to the band 😀

<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH" />
<uses-permission android:name="android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN" /

Step 3
Add the Xiaomi Mi Band dependencyto the gradle and sync it

compile 'com.zhaoxiaodan.miband:miband-sdk:1.1.2'

Step 4

In the oncreate you have to create and initialize an instance of the MiBand Class

private MiBand miband;
miband = new MiBand(this);

Step 5

I have not done the pairing part in the code, but I assume the Mi band of yours is already paired to the device. If you have paired more than one device you can populate all the paired devices and allow the user to select one. But for the demonstration purpose I have only paired with my Mi Band so it is the one and only device returns to me

Object[] devices = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter().getBondedDevices().toArray();
final BluetoothDevice device = (BluetoothDevice) devices[0];

So I am getting my paired device from the available devices, as I only got my Mi band paired I get the 0th device. hope you people got that part 😀

Step 6
No you have to connect to the paired device

miband.connect(device, new ActionCallback() {
    @Override
    public void onSuccess(Object data) {
        pd.dismiss();
        Log.d(TAG, "Success !!!");
        miband.setDisconnectedListener(new NotifyListener() {
            @Override
            public void onNotify(byte[] data) {
                Log.d(TAG, "Disconnected!!!");
            }
        });
    }
    @Override
    public void onFail(int errorCode, String msg) {
        pd.dismiss();
        Log.d(TAG, "connect fail, code:" + errorCode + ",mgs:" + msg);
    }
});

Step 7

So if you have successfully connected to the device. You can start invoking functions of the MiBand in the button clicks
For example : You can make it Vibrate using this code snippet

miband.startVibration(VibrationMode.VIBRATION_WITH_LED);

You can check out some more commands in the sample code available in Git Hub