I see that there are no official announcements regarding full Bluetooth support. And no one here in the forum knows if jolla will or can implement this in the future. There are only a lot of assumptions.
So this feed can be closed. A proceeding discussion will not help anymore to get more information about this.
I will continue to monitor sailfish and maybe at some day I will be back.
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Bluetooth works with my Sony headphones (WH-1000XM4) and spotify.
i can use the controls of my headphones.
only the sony sound connect app canât configure the bluetooth just like other android apps, is there a work around so these android apps can turn the bluetooth on?
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Phew, this is a really confusing discussion. Iâve read through everything carefully and understand the views of @seehas and @explit, as well as the other participants in the discussion, very well. Nevertheless, I believe that 100% support for Android apps, especially when it comes to BT, would be enormously beneficial for the spread of SFOS, and I think that should be a priority for Jolla. Because spread means that the interest of developers who have previously focused on Android and Apple apps would then massively increase in developing native apps for SFOS. I believe an operating system should always be useful for as many different users as possible. Look at Linux; no other operating system in the world is as versatile as Linux, and even in terms of performance in games, it has already overtaken Windows, the former market leader. Certainly not yet widely available, as word of good things doesnât always spread quickly, but in terms of pure performance, definitely. Whatever. I know that my opinion wonât change anything and the decision lies with those who make it, but I just wanted to point out that even if it is complex and expensive, it would still have a gigantic pull effect if Android support was, at best, 100% on the hardware side via SFOS as the host OS. I only know one thing for myself: if I were to win the lottery, I would stuff Jolla full of money so that they have all the resources they need to free people from data octopuses like Google, Apple, Microsoft, and Amazon.
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And itâs true that SFOS is a niche product, but I think itâs wrong to think it should stay that way forever. If you look at it in the extreme, there are even nerds who would be satisfied with just one app in SFOS, namely the terminal. But I doubt that would make a good operating system. The same applies to Android app support. Sure, itâs already much more advanced than a terminal app, but the basic idea behind it is essentially the same.
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I think the Android app support is one of the most powerful tools that SFOS has to give Android users a hand to get them to change to SFOS and I think this hand would be even more powerful and stronger if it mastered Bluetooth. But as I said, I know, I know, I have nothing to say, but it still has to be said. Thanks for reading my opinion. May Bluetooth be with you.
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So let me get this straight. If Android support for AAS was â100%â, it would somehow attract the developers (whose Android apps now work â100%â on SFOS) to develop for SFOS? That makes no sense.
Uhm⌠while i agree you added nothing (apart from personal opinion) to the discussion - did you perhaps mean âi have no sayâ?
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That it doesnât make sense isnât right. *lol If you see Android app support as a means to an end, then it makes a lot of sense. And thatâs exactly how I see it. SFOS and Android are two different systems, so what purpose could there be other than attracting Android users to SFOS? I canât think of one. So, as Iâve already written, the whole thing is a means to an end, to attract more users and interest from developers to SFOS. And then one fine day, when the number of users is high enough and enough hard-working and, above all, interested developers have contributed enough native apps, then you could simply abandon app support for Android and SFOS would be the new Android, only much more privacy-friendly and better⌠Just an idea.
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An operating system on its own, a niche product for a few nerds, is pointless. Only a multitude of apps, the resulting application possibilities, and, above all, the involvement of other developers give an operating system life and real meaning. What would Linux, Windows, Apple, Android, etc. be if you couldnât do absolutely everything with them? So Android App Support is a tool for transferring the life of Android to SFOS. It already does this quite well today, but this tool would be even extrem more powerful if it also had the ability to handle Bluetooth. And that is why I say May Bluetooth be with you.
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In another post its now possible to switch toAAS Bluetooth.
In the next days I will try also if itpossible to use Android car now. My solution is situations or ShellEx but I think SFOS should change the top menu. We need two switches for BT. One for SFOS and one for AAS.
Maybe I can change the top menu patch from Redux to get a second Icon for BT ASS.
So can the use free decide witch service he will use. This Switch can also used in Situations for example in the car goto AAS Bluetooth.
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@Jollalalalala
What a beautiful utopia. Hopefully it will come true.
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