Auto integration and Android - G1 General

A question for those who keep up on the news a lot better than I do in the Android world.
Has there been any news about progress on Android supporting PBAP and other parts of the bluetooth protocol necessary to transfer contacts, caller ID, and sms notifications to a car stereo headunit?
In my searching, I noticed that bluez, the linux bluetooth stack, does indeed support PBAP, but either Android's version doesn't or there is no application that uses it yet.

recent thread and more:
http://www.google.com/cse?cx=000825...pment&sa=Search&cof=FORID:0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
There's some info in koocat's thread about OBEX being supported by bluez, he's offering $300 for a dev to make things work. I don't know if anything will come of it, but there is some info in there that may help.

I had read that thread before and found it to be the usual, long, drawn-out series of off-topic posts. It answered my question: there really isn't any news about android bluetooth stack development.
BlueZ supports OBEX (and has for a while) as well as PBAP. Unfortunately, the Android devs decided not to include them, just as they decided to leave out some audio-related bluetooth features until cupcake.
Auldg's post (yesterday, in fact) had a better answer. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4157673&postcount=59
He outlines a possible workaround, at least, for getting contacts lists into a car headunit by using vCards and BlueX from the market. It might be worth a try.
Thanks for the link!
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=4157673&postcount=59

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bluetooth stack + api, sdk

i'm looking for a sdk or api for the bluetooth stack on the magician. I'm planning on writing a tool that will enable some much needed stuff on wireless headsets (caller id and other stuff)
but i do need that api to do stuff, as i can't really find any info on the handling of the protocols and profiles
Justice Strike said:
i'm looking for a sdk or api for the bluetooth stack on the magician. I'm planning on writing a tool that will enable some much needed stuff on wireless headsets (caller id and other stuff)
but i do need that api to do stuff, as i can't really find any info on the handling of the protocols and profiles
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I do not know if it can help you but this is a free compact framework library with many Bluetooth oriented classes
http://32feet.net/library/
i've seen it, it's seriously underdocumented. their is only the name of a specific function, but no explanation about it.
Hey,
the bluetooth stack on the magician is from microsoft. There are several commercial and non-commercial bluetooth API`s around. Commercial for example: www.franson.com. Non- Commercial: search for Peter Foot on Google.
Later,
sojakim

Bluetooth on WinCE

Hello ! I am working on CEPC x86 platform. I want to use a bluetooth device on this platform. I've read on the blogs available on the net, which say that we can simply enable the bluetooth from the Catalog items of Platform Builder. But then some people have written that the steps specified have not worked for them. Is it possible that the driver available on Wince works with the Bluetooth devices from specific vendors and not for all. If somebody is having any experience in this please help.
Thanks anyway.
Sudhakar.
this is not the right section to post questions. there is a Q&A section for that.
thank you

AGEphone Mobile Bluetooth Support [Paid Development]

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[Q] [Android Core] - Handling multiple data-based applications

Hi All,
I want to know how Android handles multiple applications which are data-based simultaneously. For example, one of the Android Applications might be an IM, one e-mail application, one SNS client(like Facebook client, Twitter client), but all of them can run simultaneously in Android without any hiccups. May I know how this situation is handled in Android stack?
If yes, then since Android is open-source, any pointers to suitable portion of the platform code which handles this would be perfect.
Please excuse me if I was not clear enough on my question and let me know. I'll try to explain it yet once again in a better fashion.
Thanks,
Pritam.
I really don't understand your question. Are you asking about how the OS multitasks? How the TCP/IP stack handles multiple connections? Something else?
Yes, you are right. I believe the TCP/IP stack implementation is part of the Android Stack Code. I want to know with so many Applications using data services simultaneously, how does Android keep track of the sessions and everything? A suitable pointer/reference to Android Code would be simply great.
Thanks,
Pritam.
The android is based on linux and this is all part of the core kernel networking drivers. TCP/IP on linux has been around for ever. Somehow, I think we're talking past each other.

Implementing Smartwatch support (Android Wear <-> WP8.1)

Hey guys,
today I found this topic http://forum.xda-developers.com/and...ndroid-wear-ios-devhelpneededappbeta-t3051156 where they basically got an Android Wear Device to connect with iOS.. now my thinking was, shouldn't this be possible for Windows Phone aswell? BLE is present, there are even Smartwatch Apis. So, shouldn't we just be able to get Android wear to accept a Windows Phone connection aswell in rerouting the correct apis etc.?
Here's a sample sourcecode to get an idea on what they did https://github.com/zhangfh/ANCSSample
Now, since this involves both Windows Phone AND Android, I am not sure on where to post this, so I'll just post it here. If you guys want it moved, that's fine with me.
Now to the Windows Phone part. Even if the Apps itself won't push to wear, it should always be possible to just write a notification app (like Boxcar for iOS) where you log into your social networking stuff and let THAT push to wear. Now, I'm not sure if there are enough apis or if they are even available for public use or OEM/MS restricted, but I thought it was worth a post, since we've been missing out a lot with those shiny new gadgets.
Also, I think an unencrypted MS Band/Health appx should help in determining the correct apis, calls etc (I'm still learning, not there just yet.) needed.
I hope this post is not completely worthless and if someone has already done some stuff, I'd be willing to test it out since my G Watch R (using a secondary phone just for that...) will be arriving next week!
cheers, hutchinsane_
WP8.1 does indeed have BTLE APIs, so it should be pretty easy to use them for this. As you say, you'd have to write the apps yourself because the current WP ones probably don't interface with Android Wear, but it would probably be fairly popular if you did...
GoodDayToDie said:
WP8.1 does indeed have BTLE APIs, so it should be pretty easy to use them for this. As you say, you'd have to write the apps yourself because the current WP ones probably don't interface with Android Wear, but it would probably be fairly popular if you did...
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Unfortunately, Microsoft ignored some important BT4/BLE specs in their BT stack implementation. For some (let me say - STUPID!) reasons, BLE device must be paired before it become available for the MS BLE API I have no idea why they did it; probably, they are trying to be more "secure" even they ruin whole BLE idea...
So, if BLE device not supported pairing, you can't support it on WP8.1 or Win 8.1... One more "thanks" to MS...
P.S. What's why I can't control my PowerUp 3.0 paper plane gadget from my Lumia 920 (but it works perfect on iOS or Android)
sensboston said:
Unfortunately, Microsoft ignored some important BT4/BLE specs in their BT stack implementation. For some (let me say - STUPID!) reasons, BLE device must be paired before it become available for the MS BLE API I have no idea why they did it; probably, they are trying to be more "secure" even they ruin whole BLE idea...
So, if BLE device not supported pairing, you can't support it on WP8.1 or Win 8.1... One more "thanks" to MS...
P.S. What's why I can't control my PowerUp 3.0 paper plane gadget from my Lumia 920 (but it works perfect on iOS or Android)
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My G Watch R arrived today and it does pair and connect with my phone. The phone says "connected", the watch says "connecting" but none of the functions work, as expected. So connection shouldn't be a problem!
@hutchinsane_, it means you still have a hope You may try some BLE-enabled apps from the store like a "BLE Scanner" but for the full support of your LG "G Watch К" you should wait until someone will write an app for this gadget (actually - I just re-read topic - not just for your gadget but for Android Wear OS. This is kinda complicated job so there's not much hope...)
sensboston said:
@hutchinsane_, it means you still have a hope You may try some BLE-enabled apps from the store like a "BLE Scanner" but for the full support of your LG "G Watch К" you should wait until someone will write an app for this gadget (actually - I just re-read topic - not just for your gadget but for Android Wear OS. This is kinda complicated job so there's not much hope...)
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well someone already did it for iOS, so I guess it can't be that hard. But I'm way to inexperienced and lazy. hope someone will be inspired by this post. I'll try the BLE Scanner!
Edit: I just noticed that Android Wear Devices show up in Device Hub... they are recognised as watches. Veeery interesting.
Edit 2: @sensboston I just noticed that the watch wont pair with my 920 either, maybe it's the phones fault that your PowerUp doesn't work

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