How to detect hands free garniture on Android 2.2+?

Question

I want to know when user has connected hands free accessories and hasn't blocked calls\sms. Is it possible to know when it is connected via hardware ports or bluetooth?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 26 '12 at 12:50

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Try this in your onCreate or onResume.

    BluetoothAdapter myLocalAdapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
    BluetoothDevice garniture;
    Set<BluetoothDevice> connectedDevices = myLocalAdapter.getBondedDevices();
    for (BluetoothDevice device : connectedDevices){
        String name = device.getName();
        //...  check for the name you want
        if( name.equals("whatnameisit"){
             garniture = device
        } 
    }
    if (garniture != null){
        // yay we found it,  lets do our work with the device here 
    }

answered Oct 26 '12 at 12:50

petey

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and this http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6249023/detecting-whether-a-headset-is-plugged-in-or-not might help in case of wired handsfree. – sandrstar Oct 26 '12 at 12:53
sandrstar also has posted relevant information in his/her SO link to detect if a headset is on. here is more helpful info on android and bluetooth including permissions you need to include in the manifest: http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/connectivity/bluetooth.html – petey Oct 26 '12 at 12:57

How to detect hands free garniture on Android 2.2+?

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