Bluetooth Smart (4.0) / GATT support in Android 4.0?

Question

I\'m trying to find way to work with Bluetooth 4.0 (AKA Bluetooth Smart) devices using modern Android smartphones, namely - HTC One V.

As I understood, there is some iss

Answer 1

HTC has had BLE support since last year with HTC One X+, Droid DNA and of course the HTC One. Initially the HTC BLE API was upon request but it's now been freely downloadable at http://htcdev.com.

Yes the new standard Android BLE API from Google in Android API Level 18 is coming very soon (see preview from IO video) - but you can wrap third party APIs (HTC, Samsung, etc) in a compatible way to support the new standard API as all the APIs are quite similar in their support of the GATT profile (similar to IOS).