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Re: Bluetooth API for 3rd party developers

 

Hi Michael and Simon,

Thanks for the info. I will have a try! Hopefully, we can get the open API
into our images soon.

Best regards,
XiaoGuo

On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 7:01 PM, Michael Zanetti <
michael.zanetti@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On 24.08.2015 12:37, Simon Fels wrote:
> > On 23.08.2015 04:44, XiaoGuo Liu wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am now trying to help a developer to get Bluetooth API. On our phone
> >> platform, do we have any open API for the purpose? I cannot find any
> such
> >> info at: http://developer.ubuntu.com/api/apps/qml/sdk-15.04/.
> >
> > From what I know we currently don't expose any bluetooth specific APIs.
> > Qt itself offers some (see http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/qtbluetooth-index.html)
> > but I never tried to use them in Ubuntu Touch applications. The package
> > (qml-module-qtbluetooth) responsible for it also isn't installed on our
> > current images.
>
> afaik, QtBluetooth will be included in images soon. To get started with
> exploring it you can manually install it from apt for now. I have tested
> the BluetoothDiscoveryModel and it seems to work for unconfined stuff. I
> had less luck with file transfers tho.
>
> >
> > This is really something we need to get up on our list of things we have
> > to provide as part of our application usable API sets.
>
> Once we have Bluez5 running and are not working on top of an obsolete
> stack any more I expect this topic to get some more attention.
>
> Br,
> Michael
>
> >
> > regards,
> > Simon
> >
> >
>
>
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