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Abdul Rahman
Abdul Rahman

Reputation: 2089

Atheros Bluetooth 4.0 Support API for Android

I am involved in a Android Project that connects the sensor using Bluetooth 4.0. AFAIK android didn't support Bluetooth 4.0. I tried with my laptop bluetooth 4.0. I tried with Broadcom using this. Later i came to know my Laptop Bluetooth 4.0 is Atheros Bluetooth 4.0 and later i searched for Atheros Bluetooth 4.0 API using android mobiles and tablets. I saw Qualcomm having Bluetooth 4.0 tablet. I want to know, is Atheros giving API for Bluetooth 4.0 for Android SDK.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 3618

Answers (2)

Abdul Rahman
Abdul Rahman

Reputation: 2089

Finally, long way of search, i found that up to today(23/12/12), Atheros not giving Bluetooth API for developers. But they are providing other API's for Audio, Camera, Device Info and Sensor(mobile shake). So, can't try on laptop also. Dgel comment and link helped me a lot and made me, come to the conclusion.

Upvotes: 1

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 17882

Android Bluetooth (and other) API's are not specific to the hardware (or software stack).

They are generic and fairly high-level, and Yes they include Bluetooth 4.0.

The actually support for BT 4 depends on the device. Recent Nexus devices support BT4 (both in hardware and in software) as long as they have the Android 4.2 update.

If you root your device you can get to the 'raw' vendor API's, but I don't know what that looks like for BT4, or wheteher any of that is published. In most cases that is Broadcom based, not Atheros.

EDIT: I just saw this: http://code.google.com/p/broadcom-ble/ I'm not familiar with this, but I suspect that it was just a stop gap measure before BT4 was added to the official Android API in 4.1.

Upvotes: 0

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