This minimalist app demonstrates that single device Companion Device Manager association works on a particular Android phone as described here: https://developer.android.com/develop/connectivity/bluetooth/companion-device-pairing On some phones, particularly the Samsung Galaxy S21 with Android 14, this does not work as expected and the dialog described in Figure 2 of the above link never appears. This works fine on other Samsung models with Andorid 14.
- A Bluetooth LE peripheral that can be made connectable while advertising a known name.
- And Android phone to test
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Edit MainActivity.kt and type in the advertised name of your blueooth device used for testing here:
val deviceName = // TODO: Put your expected advertised name of your device here, e.g. "MyDevice" -
Using Android Studio, compile and run on your test Android phone
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Follow the app's prompts to start Companion Device Manager association on the phone.
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If Companion Device Manager works as expected, you will see an allow dialog as part of this process. Tap the allow button if you see this and you will get a success confirmation.