Alert Notification Service (ANS)

General Description

The Alert Notification Service exposes alert information in a device.

This information includes:

• Type of alert occurring in a device
• Additional text information such as the caller's ID or sender's ID
• Count of new alerts
• Count of unread alert items

Depending on the chosen GATT role in the Bluetooth Configurator, you may use a subset of the supported API.

The ANS API names begin with Cy_BLE_ANS_. In addition to this, the API also append the GATT role initial letter in the API name.

API Reference
	ANS Server and Client Function
	These are API common to both GATT Client role and GATT Server role.
	ANS Server Functions
	API unique to ANS designs configured as a GATT Server role.
	ANS Client Functions
	API unique to ANS designs configured as a GATT Client role.
	ANS Definitions and Data Structures
	Contains the ANS specific definitions and data structures used in the ANS API.