Hi Kevin, On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:00:19PM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote: > Andrei, > Thanks a lot for the Quick response. > Can you please provide a link for the alternative for Bluetooth stack in > Android or specify its name ? I did not know about it. The alternatives seems to be: 1) backport old BlueZ + Bluetooth framework from Android 4.1.2 https://gitorious.org/android-bluez 2) The new project with the latest BlueZ and Android: http://code.google.com/p/android-bluez/ (this is initial phase) 3) You can also use Bluedroid with BlueZ kernel drivers via CHANNEL_USER Best regards Andrei Emeltchenko > > Best Regards, > Kevin > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Andrei Emeltchenko > <andrei.emeltchenko.news@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Kevin, > > > > On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 04:16:45PM +0300, Kevin Wilson wrote: > >> Hello all, > >> I have a question: > >> > >> I saw in several places on the web text which says, in some > >> variations, that "BlueZ has been removed starting from Android 4.2 > >> and the Broadcom-supplied Bluetooth stack (bluedroid) has replaced > >> it. It says also that the bluedroid > >> stack relies on HAL-loading like most other hardware types. > >> > >> On the other hand I see in the official page, > >> http://www.bluez.org/ > >> something which I am not sure how to interpret. > >> > >> > >> I want to resolve my confusion. > >> So here is my question: > >> In Android 4.2 and above - is the BlueZ removed ? > > > > Yes > > > >> is the BlueDroid > >> used instead ? > > > > Yes > > > >>or are they both used? > > > > No. > > > > Now there is a project to provide alternative for Bluetooth stack in > > Android. > > > > Best regards > > Andrei Emeltchenko > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
