BLE questions?

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d david germain 2 years 4 months ago
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BLE questions?
We need to be able to perform “background” Bluetooth (BLE) scans periodically even when the user does not have our application focussed. There may be a couple of potential problems with this:

It’s possible that any onboard Zebra software may require exclusive access to the Bluetooth hardware and so prevent us scanning.
Some OEM builds of Android have aggressive power-management policies that either prevent background tasks running or shut them down after a few hours.
AS i understand it MX gives the developers very granular control over he device hardware. If a Bluetooth headset is in use can i still scan for other devices at the same time (exclusive access)

And how much control do we have over the power of the on board hardware?

cheers

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J James Swinton-Bland

Hi,

You should be able to scan without issue. As far as I'm aware, nothing out-of-the-box requires full control of the BT stack. In terms of power management, you may want to look into disabling Doze Mode via MX: https://techdocs.zebra.com/mx/powermgr/ or alternatively, white-listing your app from Doze Mode: https://techdocs.zebra.com/emdk-for-android/6-9/mx/appmgr/#prevent-doze…

We have a full blog on application / power management here: https://developer.zebra.com/blog/keeping-your-android-application-runni…

Thanks,

James

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