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Bluetooth should also work on android <2.0 #184

Closed GoogleCodeExporter closed 9 years ago

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I guess that the summary is pretty self-explaining but ... anyways:

There might not be built-in bluetooth file transfer in older versions of 
Android, but they are perfectly capable of utilizing the bluetooth protocol and 
still, there are a lot of devices that run Donut and Cupcake. They shouldn't be 
ignored just because their carriers didn't provide updates.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by n...@bofh.bg on 28 Sep 2010 at 9:02

GoogleCodeExporter commented 9 years ago 
I agree that it *should* work, but unfortunately Android < 2.0 doesn't give 
apps a way to access bluetooth at all - the API was introduced in 2.0.

There are hacky ways to do it - e.g. 
http://code.google.com/p/android-bluetooth/ - but it doesn't support all the 
features we need, and last I heard it doesn't work as well as it should.

Also see this article about why it wasn't included until 2.0: 
http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2008/08/some-information-on-apis-removed-
in.html

Original comment by rdamazio@gmail.com on 28 Sep 2010 at 5:36