Bluetooth support on Android Emulator

Question

Hi everyone! I wanna know if the developer team wich made the emulator have some information to make bluetooth works in the android emulator, indicate some links about it, if they have some date for release or if they'll make it works in the future.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Hi, as far as I know there is no support in the emulator for bluetooth. And I will have to teach android and bluetooth in some classes. And the students will need to code stuff and test (guess it) in the android emulator.

So I came up with a bare-bone reimplementation of the android bluetooth API on top of tcp. You can find it on here on github.

Basically, you run a tcp-server on your machine, and the emulators will connect through it. Instead of using the classes in the package android.bluetooth, you just need to use the classes in the package dk.itu.android.bluetooth (and other 2 little modifies).

As for now it supports:

• switch on/off the "radio"
• discovery devices (only other android emulators)
• creating bluetooth services
• connecting to bluetooth services

It's not much, but until we got some more from the android guys, I guess there is nothing else around.

Hope it'll be useful, cheers!