ANT+ is supported on Android, but it depends on what hardware (and what’s enabled) is on the phone
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ANT+ isn’t supported by Wahoo on Android. Also, you have to download five apps to really get it working plus modify internal parameters so USB devices to SUPPORT ANT+ are recognized if your device doesn’t include native hardware
Indeed, my point was only that ANT+ is supported by Android - and everything else is generally vendor software, and native hardware, requirements. A significant amount of Android phones used to have the h/w, and that has worked seamlessly IME when present with zero extra work.
Interesting that you say a majority. I’ve owned several Android devices and not one of them natively supported ANT+. A knew someone who owned an S-22 and it wasn’t an off-the-shelf version that supported the protocol. Maybe tablets did but not many phones.
I didn’t say “majority” though, phrase was “significant amount”. I’ve had plenty seemingly without any ANT h/w, plenty with the hardware, some enabled, some not e.g. Nordic looking chipset number but only BT active , but the number of natively supported ones seems to be going down from my limited sample size. IME Sony phones always worked, but not had one in years.
Edit. Fwiw the phones I’ve had working ANT radios on have sometimes not been in the thisisant directory, not unusual cf. HRMs and power meters with dev ANT IDs.
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I agree with the addition of ANT+ for Android. I don’t know how hard it is to extend code so it would be available though.
My various Samsung phones all have supported ANT+ going back years. Android supports ANT+. It’s the apps that don’t, probably because not all Android phones support ANT+, and almost all newer sensors support BT.
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And I have yet to get a phone that Supported ANT+. Interesting. I did get a Garmin dongle that fell apart, but worked. However, it took five programs to get the protocol to work, and engaging developer settings.