androidbluetoothbluetooth-lowenergyibeaconandroid-4.1-jelly-bean

Detect beacon using older version then Android 4.3

I made a beacon's app and i would like to adapt it for android 4.1 (API 16). Beacons use BLE but it's implemented for version 4.3+. Is it possible to use classic bluetooth to detect them?

E/dalvikvm: Could not find class 'android.bluetooth.BluetoothManager', referenced from method org.altbeacon.beacon.BeaconManager.checkAvailability
E/dalvikvm: Could not find class 'com.orhanobut.hawk.Hawk$2', referenced from method com.orhanobut.hawk.Hawk.getObservable
E/dalvikvm: Could not find class 'com.orhanobut.hawk.Hawk$1', referenced from method com.orhanobut.hawk.Hawk.putObservable
E/dalvikvm: Could not find class 'com.orhanobut.hawk.HawkBuilder$2', referenced from method com.orhanobut.hawk.HawkBuilder.buildRx
Solution

  • Beacons work only with Bluetooth LE, not Bluetooth Classic. And Bluetooth LE detection generally requires Android 4.3+.

    The only exception to that is on certain Samsung devices with a stock ROM running 4.2.x. Samsung built their own Bluetooth LE stack with their own APIs. A branch of the Android Beacon Library added support for these devices.