[foooorsyth]

I mean, defining the service in some sort of universal definition format is clearly the way to go. Working with BLE across platforms is incredibly terse and error-prone. The UUIDs should only be in one file -- human eyes aren't going to notice a single-character mistake in those things.

A far-less-error prone and faster approach I've taken recently is just having two busses -- one read/write characteristic for inbound messages to the peripheral, and one r/w/notifying characteristic for inbound messages to the central. Then all messages just get defined as protocol buffers. Adding new characteristics for new functionality is a massive pain. Easier to just add new protos and use the same pipe.