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Fitbit, Linux, and you

Posted Jan 24, 2013 16:02 UTC (Thu) by adx (guest, #87945)
In reply to: Fitbit, Linux, and you by philipstorry
Parent article: Fitbit, Linux, and you

The lack of Android support is due to the non-existent software support of BLE. Supposedly, it was close to complete until they decided to switch to the new bluedroid stack. Now there is no comment on when, or even if, BLE support will be supported in Android.

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Posted Jan 24, 2013 16:22 UTC (Thu) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Supposedly it's planned for the next Android release (see here: BLE will be the next major feature we are going to add). The question of "when", as usual, is up in the air...