Replacing Dexcom receiver with iOS or Android App

[docslotnick]

@John_T1D If you have an iPhone or one of many Android phones you really don’t need a Dexcom receiver.
For the iPhone just download the Dexcom mobile app from the App Store.

If you are on Android search for the Dexcom G5 mobile app on the Play Store. It will come up if your phone is compatible. If not compatible try the ported Dexcom app referenced in this thread :

Dexcom App For All Android Phones

For anyone wanting to run the official Dexcom App on your Android phone, but don’t have one of the phones that Dexcom supports, a group recompiled the official Dexcom app and tweaked it so it will run on virtually any Android device. Due to the variability in Bluetooth implementations on Android devices there may be some that this won’t work on. I tried it on my Galaxy Tab S and it worked just fine. But looking at the paucity of the Dexcom App there is no way that I would go back to it and sto…

Or, better yet, you can look at this as an opportunity to start using xDrip+

And Welcome to FUD!