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Bluetooth Battery Level Indicators are Finally Coming to Android

Bluetooth Battery Level Indicators are Finally Coming to Android.

A really useful feature for those of us with Bluetooth headsets and other devices is finally making its way to AOSP: Bluetooth battery level indicators.

There’s no telling exactly how this Bluetooth battery level indicator will appear in its final state, but the existence of this new API in AOSP means that developers can implement Bluetooth battery indicators however they like.

The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (Bluetooth SIG), the body that oversees the standards for each Bluetooth iteration, has already defined a Battery service (BAS) in GATT (Generic Attributes services), but it’s up for Bluetooth to support BAS.

Add APIs to get remote device’s battery level Add BluetoothDevice.getBatteryLevel() API to retreive battery level information of remote device.

Reset battery level for device when device is disconnected in aclStateChangeCallback() to ensure a BATTERY_LEVEL_CHANGED intent when device first report battery level information after connection.

As such, this means the new connected Bluetooth battery level reporting API won’t make its way to the first release of Android O – Android 8.0. »

Playwright, Director and Actor Sam Shepard Passes Away at 73

Authored by broadwayworld.com

BroadwayWorld has just learned that playwright, actor, author, screenwriter, and director Sam Shepard has passed away.

Survivors include his children, Jesse, Hannah and Walker Shepard, and his sisters, Sandy and Roxanne Rogers.

Shepard is the author of forty-four plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. »

The Man Who Broke Atlantic City

Authored by theatlantic.com

Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night, single-handedly decimating the monthly revenue of Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino.

Whenever the racily clad cocktail waitress wandered in with a fresh whiskey and Diet Coke, he took it from the tray.

So when Johnson got far enough ahead in his winning sprees, he reasoned that he might as well keep playing. »

/r/MovieDetails: Obscure details and easter eggs found in movies : subredditoftheday

Authored by reddit.com

Today its one of reddits fastest growing subreddits with over 190,000 subscribers in the 1st month and still rapidly growing.

r/MovieDetails is a subreddit dedicated to neat little details and easter eggs found in movies.

MuchRedditLessTime Obviously the start of the subreddit being from a former default subreddit meant that it had a lot of exposure from the beginning. »

After Delays, SpaceX and Boeing Aim to Launch Astronauts Next Year

Authored by popularmechanics.com

Back in 2014, SpaceX and Boeing both received contracts under NASA's Commercial Crew Development program to build spacecraft that could carry astronauts to the International Space Station.

NASA along with Boeing and SpaceX have indicated that they are on track to hit target launch dates in 2018.

SpaceX and Boeing have hit a few snags in their quest to build human-rated spacecraft, but their labors are finally coming together. »