I need to build a mobile app that can connect to bluetooth devices and send and receive data to update the settings of the devices. I have no experience with bluetooth whatsoever. I have built a PWA with Angular before and was thus hoping to apply that knowledge for this project. Can this be achieved with web technologies or do I have to build some sort of native app? My google searches are unconclusive. If possible, how can I do this?
After some research, I have discovered that it is in fact possible to access a devices Bluetooth interface from certain browsers, using web bluetooth technology.
However, this API is still very experimental and supported only by a handful of browsers such as chrome and opera. Other major browsers like Firefox and Safari do not support this feature.
Conclusively, there is no reliable way to provide a range users of a PWA (with different browsers) with features that require Bluetooth.