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user1157751
user1157751

Reputation: 2457

Android Bluetooth 4.0 Development

Has anyone done Bluetooth BLE development for android before? Currently, from what I researched, HTC and Samsung does provide APIs for their flagship devices.

HTC:http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/opensense-sdk/bluetooth-low-energy

Samsung:http://developer.samsung.com/ble

Do these APIs usually depends on the Bluetooth hardware on the phone? For example from Atheros, Broadcom, etc.

From my experience in Bluetooth 2.0 development for example using the BlueCove API (http://bluecove.org/) It isn't hardware dependent.

Upvotes: 0

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Answers (1)

ashish
ashish

Reputation: 1381

Edit: This answer is outdated, and since Android 4.3 (release date 24 July 2013), Android supports Bluetooth LE.

Android does not have support for BLE hence different vendors have there own solutions. These solutions differ in design and implementation though the actual HCI(Hot controller interface) command to BT chip would be same which would not be exposed to the application developer.

FW API's exposed would not be dependent on the bluetooth hardware but middleware implementation have differ depending on the BLE h/w, hope it answers all your queries

Upvotes: 1

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