android how to write Bluetooth Low energy device access

Question

I have no idea about the android development, but in iOS we have a framework called CoreBluetooth for Bluetooth Low energy device connectivity.

Do we have the library in android to access BLE?.

Answer 1

I don't think Android natively support BLE as of now. Some motorola devices said to have BLE hardware, but I don't think there is nothing at API level for us to work with.

Lot of people complaining about this in this thread. You can join too. The earliest you can persuade Google, the better.

Answer 2

Htc now uses broadcom api on top of bluez but named htc instead of broadcom and with a few changes to types.

Samsung got a secret one but with bugs.

Google said in December and again this year that BLE will be next big feature. No releasedate though. Maybe Android 5?

Google are a few year too late.

Answer 3

Google has announced plans for official Bluetooth LE support in API level 18. See here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/15/4334882/google-adopts-bluetooth-smart-hints-android-update-within-two-months

Currently, HTC offers an API (which, is of course, for HTC devices):

http://www.htcdev.com/devcenter/opensense-sdk/partner-apis/bluetooth-low-energy/

and as others have hinted, Samsung must have a secret one, as several bluetooth LE devices are working with samsung devices.

Answer 4

Yea Google has finally announced something related to BLE. Check out this link http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth-le.html .