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From: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko.news@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Wilson <wkevils@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: BlueZ and Android - question
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 16:44:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131015134354.GH2861@aemeltch-MOBL1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGXs5wXGtexDMRmVNA64bMrHt4ZW3pB6SwZA7K9c_5qQkGh6GA@mail.gmail.com>

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 


  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-15 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-15 13:16 BlueZ and Android - question Kevin Wilson
2013-10-15 13:44 ` Andrei Emeltchenko [this message]
2013-10-15 15:00   ` Kevin Wilson
2013-10-16  7:01     ` Andrei Emeltchenko

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