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The following permissions are required to use the Bluetooth APIs: android.permission.BLUETOOTH android.permission.BLUETOOTH_ADMIN If you're targeting devices with Android 6.0 (API Level 23) or higher and want to perform scanning/advertising operations you will require a Location permission: a...

Once you have discovered a desired BluetoothDevice object, you can connect to it by using its connectGatt() method which takes as parameters a Context object, a boolean indicating whether to automatically connect to the BLE device and a BluetoothGattCallback reference where connection events and cli...

Once you are connected to a Gatt Server, you're going to be interacting with it by writing and reading from the server's characteristics. To do this, first you have to discover what services are available on this server and which characteristics are avaiable in each service: @Override public voi...

You can request to be notified from the Gatt Server when the value of a characteristic has been changed: gatt.setCharacteristicNotification(characteristic, true); BluetoothGattDescriptor descriptor = characteristic.getDescriptor( UUID.fromString("00002902-0000-1000-8000-00805f9b34fb&quot...

You can use Bluetooth LE Advertising to broadcast data packages to all nearby devices without having to establish a connection first. Bear in mind that there's a strict limit of 31 bytes of advertisement data. Advertising your device is also the first step towards letting other users connect to you....

In order for your device to act as a peripheral, first you need to open a BluetoothGattServer and populate it with at least one BluetoothGattService and one BluetoothGattCharacteristic: BluetoothGattServer server=bluetoothManager.openGattServer(context, bluetoothGattServerCallback); BluetoothGat...