[GSoC] Week 3 (Native Bluetooth support)

[Dirk Hohndel]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 10:03:32PM +0300, Claudiu Olteanu wrote:
> >
> > The reason we explored QtBluetooth was that I was told that in Qt5.5 it
> > was going to support all our platforms. It appears that this was wrong an
> > it supports all except for Windows :-(
> 
> Well, no.. Sorry to disappoint you. For Qt 5.5 it is planned
> to offer support for iOS and OS X and a stable Bluetooth
> Low Energy API. I mentioned this on the proposal and the fact
> that for Windows we will need to use the MS BT stack.

Which just goes to show how much wishful thinking messes with my ability
to read :-(

> > OK. How are you going to implement the OS X Bluetooth stack in
> > libdiveceomputer? How about Android? And (here's hoping) IOS?
> 
> If we want to have support for this platforms, probably the best
> choice will be to use the Qt Bluetooth API and let the framework
> to deal with the differences between the platforms. Because of this
> I believe that it is a good idea for libdivecomputer to let the
> application to open its custom communication implementation or to
> be able to pass callbacks for basic read/write operations.

So we agree that this is a reasonable way to do things.

And then on the Subsurface side we use QtBluetooth plus a Windows specific
Bluetooth implementation.

Correct?

/D