Is it possible to pair multiple Android wears pointing or paring to a single Android device?
Running Android 4.3 and above.
I know that an Android wear cannot be paired with two or more Android devices and I experimented that.
Yes, you can pair multiple android wear devices (watches) with a single phone.
✅ w* <-> p
But you can't do the other way (pairing one android wear device (watch) to multiple phones is not supported officially).
❌ w <-> p*
For details have a look at Google's support page.
I'm not sure if they can be connected at the same time, but I have two Android Wear devices associated with my phone.
No, at the moment (5.0.1W) only one phone per wear device.
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I want to connect two android phone only via BLE. Is it possible? because as per my understanding using Android API I can only connect with BLE enabled devices like smartwatches headphones etc. If I run startLescan() method it only shows my fitness band and headphone.
It does not show other android phones.
Yes its possible. As the hardware equally supports to act as a master or slave, but it depends on whether the OS has provide you the required interface to make a device act as master as well as slave. THe BLE in android phone is equally capabale of becoming a master or peripherical but it depends on whehter android has exposed some interface to make it work ortherwise if not you have to root/reflash your device and make changes at OS level.
Yes, two BLE devices can communicate and has been ever since the original 4.0 release.
The change in 4.1 states that a single device can act as both a master and as a slave simultaneously to two different devices. Once device has to act as periphiral and other as master.
See this: http://www.blemobileapps.com/ble-mobile/
For android this link might be helpful for you: https://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/how-to-advertise-android-as-a-bluetooth-le-peripheral--cms-25426
Reference: Chipsets/Devices supporting Android 5 BLE peripheral mode
Let me know if this answers your question.
It is possible to connect to Android phone with BLE.
One of the phones has to be a BLE Server and must advertise itself
(a role usually performed by devices like smartwatches and headphones) to be discovered by the other phone.
To advertise itself the app uses the BluetoothLeAdvertiser class.
Such API was added starting from level 21 Lollipop so your server phone should be at least a 5.0 Android device.
Personally I found this tutorial by Andrew Lunsford very useful for understanding how to realize such functionality.
I'm building a phone app with direct connection to a wear app running on several wear devices. The wear app will run on several wear devices at the same time and will share data to a single phone app.
I'm following the Android guidelines for co-packaging the wear and phone apps in a single package.
My question: can the wear app be auto-installed on multiple wear devices? If so, can you recommend how? Thanks.
Yes, it's the same as on a single device, basically. The Android Wear app on the user's phone will push your wearable app to all connected devices.
I have my primary phone linked to two or three Wear devices as a matter of course, and apps get pushed to all of them. It's really no different.
Started working on Android Wear, I could able to pair my Phone with Emulator. I am thinking to buy a device, So my question is ,
Is it possible that a Single Wear can Pair with multiple android devices and Vice versa ? I mean 2 to 3 wear devices with single android device.
Nope, you can't pair a single wear with multiple android devices at a time.
Even if a wear is already connected with a phone/tablet and if you would want to switch device then you will have to reset the wear.
Read more on Different ways to pair your watch.
I want to connect a 3rd party bluetooth device to my Android Wear watch (Samsung Gear Live). I am trying to find documentation on how to do this but I am not having any luck. All the searches I do seem to think I want to attach to a phone.
Does anyone know of a good example that shows how to connect, for example, a bluetooth heart rate monitor (or other device) to the Android Wear so I can keep a history when the phone isn't present? Is this even possible? Would it be the same protocols as doing it from a phone/tablet?
#Ryan Tensmeyer, I think #Wayne Pieksarki's answer is now out-dated. I was able to create and run a stand-alone app that used BLE to connect to a third-party bluetooth device, namely, a wireless thermometer. I used a library called SweetBlue and tested the stand-alone app on an Android Wear Moto 360. It worked great -- no phone required!
It is not possible to connect 3rd party bluetooth devices to an Android Wear watch as you describe. You will need to pair your heart rate monitor with your phone, extract the data you want, and then use the Data Layer API to send the data to the wearable for display to the user.
EDIT: Android Wear devices now support the ability to pair with Bluetooth devices.
I just want to add some features in sample bluetooth chat application and want to test its working at each successive level.
since i have limited resources like a laptop and a android based phone. How can i connect two devices to run features that support multiple devices.
I am running android based bluetooth chat application on my android phone.I want to add some features that required bluetooth. The problem is that i am having single android phone right now but i want to check whether it is really connecting to other devices and want to test features that need more than one device. Is their any solution or i need two android phones.