[android-developers] Re: android phones and bluetooth

2012-12-06 Thread bob
What's the point of connecting to a GPS by Bluetooth when almost all Androids have GPS already? On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 7:19:30 PM UTC-6, dashman wrote: do most android phones support the bluetooth serial profile. specifically - gps data access. how would i know whether the

Re: [android-developers] Re: android phones and bluetooth

2012-12-06 Thread Fred Niggle
Maybe he wants to log his position while driving... there are lots of uses... On 6 December 2012 15:19, bob b...@coolfone.comze.com wrote: What's the point of connecting to a GPS by Bluetooth when almost all Androids have GPS already? On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 7:19:30 PM UTC-6,

Re: [android-developers] Re: android phones and bluetooth

2012-12-06 Thread dashman
any links to code fragments to talk to a bluetooth gps - serial profile. i'm familiar with NMEA etc. re the poster as to why? there's always out of the norm applications. my man reason is to get data at a faster rate than delivered by the builtin gps units. -- You received this message

[android-developers] Re: android phones and bluetooth

2012-12-06 Thread lbendlin
Many Android tablets do not have GPS, but they have Bluetooth. On Thursday, December 6, 2012 10:19:15 AM UTC-5, bob wrote: What's the point of connecting to a GPS by Bluetooth when almost all Androids have GPS already? On Wednesday, December 5, 2012 7:19:30 PM UTC-6, dashman wrote: do

Re: [android-developers] Re: android phones and bluetooth

2012-12-06 Thread gjs
http://sourceforge.net/p/bluegps4droid/home/Home/ On Friday, December 7, 2012 4:12:27 AM UTC+11, dashman wrote: any links to code fragments to talk to a bluetooth gps - serial profile. i'm familiar with NMEA etc. re the poster as to why? there's always out of the norm applications. my

[android-developers] Re: android phones and bluetooth

2012-12-05 Thread gjs
Hi, do most android phones support the bluetooth serial profile. Yes specifically - gps data access. Yes, if you mean access GPS device via bluetooth how would i know whether the phone supports it Try it, there is a few free apps that will connect to BT GPS devices, use Google to search