[Development] Bluetooth and NFC vs Reference Platforms

[Michael Zanetti]

On Tuesday 01 October 2013 12:25:37 Kate Alhola wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 1, 2013 at 11:23 AM, Michael Zanetti <
> 
> michael.zanetti at canonical.com> wrote:
> > On Monday 30 September 2013 13:09:53 Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > On segunda-feira, 30 de setembro de 2013 19:39:53, Knoll Lars wrote:
> > > > >As far as I know from my colleague, it misses some necessary API --
> > > > >at
> > > > >least the connection state changes notification and device
> > 
> > disappearing
> > 
> > > > >notification.
> > > > >We could prepare some patches during the next week or two, though
> > > > >QtBluetooth probably needs few more revisions and API
> > 
> > changes/fixes...but
> > 
> > > > >we can't do too much in case of API freeze, you know...
> > > > 
> > > > A missing feature is for me not enough reason to delay the release of
> > > > a
> > > > module. There's always more features we could add to a module. It's
> > 
> > also
> > 
> > > > important to get something out and into the hands of people.
> > > > 
> > > > Feature freeze doesn't imply a full API freeze. We have the alpha/beta
> > > > period exactly for finding issues and fixing them. A missing signal is
> > > > something we can fix if required.
> > > 
> > > Right.
> > > 
> > > However, if there are major defects in the API, they need to be voiced
> > 
> > now.
> > 
> > > Like Lars said before, this API isn't new, so people have had the time
> > > to
> > > look at it.
> > > 
> > > If there are major problems, I expect that they are already known.
> > > Therefore, post them.
> > 
> > After having worked quite a bit with the Bluetooth API I wouldn't say it
> > has
> > major defects any more.
> 
> How about getting list of Bound ( and known) Devices from
> QBluetoothLocalDevice ( or from somewhere else) ?
> Normal use case is that you use device discovery only when you are pairing
> new device. After that
> you only ask locally that is there device already paired and directly
> connect to that one.
> 
> I did not found any other practical way to do this that implement it using
> Dbus for "normal" Linux
> and JNI to Android.

Shouldn't QBluetoothLocalDevice::allDevices() give that information?

Br,
Michael

> 
> Kate
> 
> > Br,
> > Michael
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