Android Bluetooth Airtag scanning

Not quite the same. It has changed from “Not going to happen” to “at some point in the future”:
Official Jolla dev are thinking to bring Bluetooth into AppSupport, see this community news, might happen by the time SailfishOS 5.1 ships.

This is the main blocker to using stuff like AirTags.

Up until now, everything bluetooth is handled on the SailfishOS side using typical GNU/Linux API and libraries (bluez), and only high level stuff is forwarded to Android within AppSupport (audio strams, input devices, etc.)

What would be needed is something that translate from BlueZ to wather weird “not-invented-here syndrom” thing Google is using inside Android for bluetooth. That would allow Android Apps to directly talk to Bluetooth devices (would allow updating firmwares on Bluetooth speakers, etc.)

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