How to programmatically pair a bluetooth device on Android

Question

For my application I\'m trying to programmatically pair a bluetooth device. I\'m able to show the pairing dialog for the device I want to pair and I can enter a pincode. Whe

Answer 1

Reflection is DODGY, different manufacturers can change these underlying methods as they wish! I have tested many different apps on our 10 devices here and these reflection method only works fully on roughly 75% of devices. If you want an app that works for everyone be very careful when using reflection - try some cloud testing to test your app on 100+ devices and check the failure rate.

In this case reflection is not needed at all since API 19 (KitKat 4.4)

BluetoothDevice has new method CreateBond.

 private void pairDevice(BluetoothDevice device) {

            device.createBond();
    }

developer.android.com/reference/android/bluetooth/BluetoothDevice.html