Either the pairing dialog, or the pairing notification, pop up
automatically when you try to connect to an unpaired device. It would
be nice if I could force the dialog version, though.

On Mar 11, 5:28 pm, Michael Elmsly <mike.elm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Technically it is the platforms fault.  OK - so the spec requires pairing
> and for security reasons you always want the user to be responsible for that
> (no autopairing or hidden pairing of devices).  Since this means you can't
> allow apps to control pairing the logical thing to do is open the bluetooth
> pairing activity via a public intent so that developers can request pairing
> with a device while still having the security and UI managed by the android
> platform to protect the users.
>
> Seems fairly obvious to me or am I being unreasonable?
>
> Mike
>
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 8:12 PM, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com
>
> > wrote:
> > (But of course, having to pair isn't the Android platform's fault, it's
> > just 802.15.1 in general :-).
>
> > Kris
>
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 2:00 AM, Kristopher Micinski <
> > krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >> P.s.,
>
> >> Bluetooth API support seems to be not that amazingly great, and you have
> >> to pair the phones first, which is annoying. (People always have to pair
> >> before playing your game!). Can you fake it using TCP/IP?
>
> >> Kris
>
> >> On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 1:47 AM, Marcin Orlowski <
> >> webnet.andr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> On 8 March 2011 19:40, bhaskar bommala <bhaskar...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> > Hi I am new to the android development , i need to access 2 android
> >>> devices
> >>> > as remote devices each other via bluetooth..
> >>> > for example if i press the 1 as input from device 1 that should appear
> >>> on
> >>> > device 2 ..
>
> >>> See SDK samples. There's Bluetooth chat app there IIRC
>
> >>> --
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> >>> Marcin Orlowski
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