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ligi
Update app to target newer versions of Android
Hello, I am interested in changing the app to target newer versions of Android, mainly Android 8.0 and above. This might require permissions changes and other changes for background work. Are you willing to accept pull requests to that end? Or do you prefer to keep the current targetSdkVersion of 22?
@sandy-8925 , it's so cool you want to improve this app. It is actually very useful yet needs some fixes, see https://github.com/ligi/BLExplorer/issues . IF you'd want to fix those, that would be supa-great. If you want then I'll try to help you get it published in F-Droid.
I'll try to work on fixing those. Right now I'm working on getting the app to build with newer Android Studio, Gradle plugins etc., code cleanups and then increasing the target SDK to Android 8.0 or above.
You can follow the work I'm doing in this branch - https://github.com/sandy-8925/BLExplorer/tree/modernization
@sandy-8925 , I don't see any activity in your fork lately. What do you think about improving it and/or fix some of https://github.com/ligi/BLExplorer/issues . IF you'd want to fix those, that would be supa-great.
I'm not able to right now, no free time. You're welcome to send pull requests if you want, but I will probably be too busy to look at those as well.
IMO if you need something fixed, you or someone else can just fork this repo and work on it, and then at a later date if I have time I can look into merging in those changes.