Why is Android Bluetooth API so hard to use? or did I just use the wrong API?

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  • RxAndroidBle

    An Android Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) Library with RxJava3 interface

  • Probably this one? It’s the only decent BLE API I’ve ever seen

  • kable

    Kotlin Asynchronous Bluetooth Low-Energy

  • if you are using BLE & kotlin, I enjoyed using https://github.com/JuulLabs/kable

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  • Android-BLE-Library

    A library that makes working with Bluetooth LE on Android a pleasure. Seriously.

  • This library makes it slightly better.

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