Question

Can someone explain me why this code give me back always only one bluetooth device, even if i’m working with two galaxy one next to the other one? This code is running on a Samsung Galaxy Tab and i’m using for tests a Samsung Galaxy Gio both with the right Bluetooth activation. If i check on the default research it works ..but not with this code:

public void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
    out = new TextView(this);
    setContentView(out);
    // Getting the Bluetooth adapter
    BluetoothAdapter adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
    out.append("\nAdapter: " + adapter);

    // Check for Bluetooth support in the first place
    // Emulator doesn't support Bluetooth and will return null
    if (adapter == null) {
        out.append("\nBluetooth NOT supported. Aborting.");
        return;
    }

    // Starting the device discovery
    out.append("\nStarting discovery...");
    adapter.startDiscovery();
    out.append("\nDone with discovery...");

    // Listing paired devices out.append("\nDevices Paired:");
    Set<BluetoothDevice> devices = adapter.getBondedDevices();
    for (BluetoothDevice device : devices) {
        out.append("\nFound device: " + device);
    }
}

Answer 1

I think you are misunderstanding what you are doing.

On one hand by calling this …

Set devices = adapter.getBondedDevices();
for (BluetoothDevice device : devices) {
out.append(“\nFound device: ” + device);
}

… you are looking up the already paired devices. If you only get one the reason is simple, you have only one paired. Take into account that this will return all the paired devices, no matter if they are live or not.

On the other hand you are starting a discovery with …

adapter.startDiscovery();

… However you have not registered a broadcast receiver to process the *BluetoothDevice.ACTION_FOUND* intents that you will receive with each discoverable Bluetooth device seen. Discoverable is key here because by default Android devices are not discoverable and they only allow a maximum time of typical 120 seconds.