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How to add Bluetooth pairing functionality in react native app for android and iOS ? Any library or links?

I want to implement bluetooth functionality into my react native app for android and iOS which adds bluetooth paring and transfer the text files between devices. Any library, documents or related ...
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Cross-platform mobile app can advertise, can scan, cannot connect via Bluetooth APIs

I am working on a Xamarin.Forms (version 4.8.0.1687) cross-platform app that needs to be able to talk to other instances of itself using Bluetooth LE. I am taking the shared interfaces/platform-...
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BLE Scan times for high end iOS and Android phones

We are working on a research project that requires active scanning of BLE beacon advertisements using the iBeacon protocol. I am under the impression that BLE scans on iOS and Android happen in ...
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Maximum Concurrent Bluetooth LE Devices on iOS and Android?

I am looking for definitive values for the maximum number of concurrent BLE devices you can connect to on both iOS and Android. I have done my own research and testing and it is not consistent. The ...
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Bluetooth connection with many devices

I want to create a network which includes many bluetooth devices paired to my smartphone. I've already found information that there can be 7 devices connected at the same time. Probably I will have ...
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How to configure ble advertisement in android for ios to detect

With my current configuration, other android device gets to read the set UUID just fine but when it comes to iOS, my colleague is getting variants of UUID from this advertisement/GATT broadcast. Do I ...
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iOS Background BLE advertising not detectable by Android

When an iOS BLE peripheral enters the background state, the advertising packets are not emitted in the regular manner and they are placed in a special “overflow” area which is only detectable by ...
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Android BLE Scanning and Connection taking too long compared to direct connection through mac

I have a simple android app which needs to connect to our hardware through BLE. In iOS both the cases have almost same time. Case 1: Scan for the service Id. Get the results. Connect Discover ...
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BLE: Read Long Characteristics Value using Android / iOS

With a normal Characteristics Read only the MTU Size (20bytes) of data will be read. My customer will offer a characteristics with a larger size (about 100bytes). I saw that BLE offers a "Long Read" ...
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Platform-agnostic bluetooth device identification mechanism

I'm trying to write a cross-platform abstraction over Bluetooth. When it comes to identifying devices (or peripherals, as iOS calls them), I'm a bit stumped. iOS includes an identifier property, ...
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CoreBluetooth: How to obtain Bluetooth MAC address of BLE device I'm connected to?

Is there a particular service and characteristic that I can read from a BLE device that will provide its MAC address? I've tried reading the Serial Number in the blind hope that it was the MAC (from ...
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Pair bluetooth just inside Application

I'm working on university project that consists in audio speaker with bluetooth connected to mobile application (iOS and Android), but the audio just works in Application, but not with mobile music ...
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iOS not seeing Android broadcasting as a peripheral

So I have an iOS app that advertises as a BLE peripheral and sees other peripherals using CBPeripheralManager and CBCentralManager, and when I'm running those samples as iOS to iOS everything works ...
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Bluetooth connections on iOS

We're trying to observe when Bluetooth devices are connected and disconnected from an iPhone. We essentially want to react (not necessarily in the foreground) when certain devices of interest connect....
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Has anyone ever connected Android as a Central to iOS as a Peripheral?

Before you mark this as duplicate, there have been so many questions on SO asking about how to connect Android to iOS over bluetooth. Many of the answers say it isn't possible, or it wasn't possible, ...
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