[flutter_blue] Add support for bluetooth communication

[jtmuller5]

There is an existing 3rd party plugin called flutter_blue that lets you communicate through bluetooth on Android and iOS. I think adding Tizen support to this plugin would make Tizen wearable apps significantly more valuable.

On a related note, is there any way to communicate between a wearable device and a mobile phone using Flutter for Tizen? I'd like to be able to communicate in real time across the devices (for example, tapping a button on the watch to play or pause a video on the phone.

Thanks for the Flutter support!

[swift-kim]

Yeah, the bluetooth support is indeed important for Tizen devices and we need to implement as soon as possible.

@flutter-tizen/maintainers @rookiejava Do we have any plans or on-going work for these items?

1. Generic bluetooth APIs (flutter_blue)
2. Samsung Accessory Protocol (SAP)

[rookiejava]

Thank you for reaching us! I think we can proceed within next month if there are no other issues. 😉

[bbrto21]

Is there any progress?

[swift-kim]

@bbrto21 Nope :/

[bbrto21]

Currently I am implementing geolocator, I think it is almost done.
if you don't mind, I have a plan to develop this plugin after finish work

[JRazek]

@bbrto21 Is there any progress. Would you mind if I started development on this plugin?

[bwikbs]

@JRazek
I guess @bbrto21 says ok becasue he is busy! 😄

[bbrto21]

@JRazek Ok
I couldn't do anything because of another task assigned to me :(

[NowLoadY]

I'm sorry to bother you@JRazek , but I want to know if the Bluetooth plugin has made any progress.
: )

[JRazek]

@NowLoadY Yes, I'm currently preparing a PR.

[NowLoadY]

@NowLoadY Yes, I'm currently preparing a PR.

I'm looking forward to it very much😍, because I'm planning to make a program that uses a watch to control the RC car. And I know nothing about how to write a flutter-tizen library.🥲
Thanks for your reply again！

[MrCsabaToth]

Please use https://github.com/boskokg/flutter_blue_plus as a base for support because the old flutter_blue plugin seems to be not maintained any more

[HakkyuKim]

@MrCsabaToth
Thanks for the info, we're aware that flutter_blue is not maintained and flutter_blue_plus is the successor of the project.

I'm working on other issues at the moment, I'll look into this once that's done.

[MrCsabaToth]

I'm working on other issues at the moment, I'll look into this once that's done.

I also have to add that there's no guarantee that at some point in future the boskosg fork won't be abandoned. But in case that would happen hopefully some other fork would become maintained and mainstream then. flutter_blue_plus has some unresolved issues on iOS, which doesn't affect me yet, I'm not sure if that's important from your perspective. But every plugin has issues and I guess flutter_blue_plus is the most widely tested today.

Also note that all (or most) of the Flutter Bluetooth plugins I saw were BLE only, so Bluetooth Low Energy / a.k.a. Bluetooth Smart only. If you need to support non BLE Bluetooth devices then you'll need to look for a different plugin.

I'm constantly surveying the Flutter Bluetooth plugin space (TrackMyIndoorWorkout/TrackMyIndoorWorkout#210).

There's a BLE plugin maintained by Phillips Hue: https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_reactive_ble I haven't ever tested it though. The question is if its main use-case is smart bulbs and smart home then how much it can handle higher data rates. It seems to be relatively popular, and maybe Phillips presence is a slight guarantee that it won't be abandoned. It is mobile only (Android + iOS) just like the boskosg flutter_blue_plus. There's also a third one I never tested: https://pub.dev/packages/flutter_ble_lib, that's also mobile only.

If you compare those three by popularity then don't look at the flutter_blue_plus's likes, but instead look at the https://github.com/boskokg/flutter_blue, because that has 700+ likes and the fork became official not too long ago, so people haven't migrated that much yet from the flutter_blue over to https://github.com/boskokg/flutter_blue_plus.

If desktop support is important to you (maybe desktop Linux support is closer to a Tizen support, or you just want to look at how it's done for Linux), then https://github.com/woodemi/quick_blue has desktop support. The Linux support essentially revolves around BlueZ.