I'm working with the Moto G 2013 and the Nexus 5 and need to use them as BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) advertisers. This functionality was added with Android API 21 and both devices are running Android 5 Lollipop.
Thing is, I believe the hardware supports BLE advertising but I've read around and it seems Google dropped support for BLE advertising in the Nexus 5, but I can't find any info on the Moto G.
One is supposed to call this method to check if BLE advertisement is supported, which I am doing like so:
BluetoothManager btManager = (BluetoothManager) getSystemService(BLUETOOTH_SERVICE);
BluetoothAdapter btAdapter = btManager.getAdapter();
if(btAdapter.isMultipleAdvertisementSupported()){
//Do Stuff
}
else{
//Do other stuff
}
In both the Moto G and the Nexus 5 the method returns false.
Does anyone have any way around this (or extra info)?
An update just to close this off:
This was only available in two devices with SDK21: Nexus 6 and Nexus 9. Other devices didn't work/weren't supported.
I ended up using a Nexus 9.
From here (original link is dead):
We introduced BLE peripheral mode in Android 5.0 Lollipop. Nexus 6 and Nexus 9 are the first two production Nexus devices that support BLE peripheral mode. Due to hardware chipset dependency, older Nexus devices (4/5/7) will not have access to the feature on Lollipop.