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<blockquote data-quote="db89" data-source="post: 2115093" data-attributes="member: 374526"><p>LibreLink wasn't originally developed by Abbott - it was farmed out to a 3rd party up until last year when Abbott brought it in house. Back then, it worked with few Android devices at all without modifying the APK to remove Play Store device restrictions and then it was a game of pot luck with your NFC chip and OS version (worked well with the circa-2016 Nexus devices).</p><p></p><p>Abbott have actually been pretty good in my experience in supporting newer devices since they took over development. The only issue I've seen on my Pixel 2 XL was a failure to scan when in-app noises were enabled after the Pie 9.0 release last year but there was a workaround and it was fixed fully soon after. It works up to the August 2019 patch for Android 9.0 on this device.</p><p></p><p>I think they still use the Play Store device restriction capability to stop incompatible devices from getting the app but they perhaps need to change their documentation a bit. It would be fairly difficult to maintain an active list of every Android device they do/don't support since there are so many manufacturers, models (and variants). If they can work out a set of parameters which would make a device compatible or not and document this in an understandable format it would be easier to maintain. However, I can see even that being difficult as some devices were fitted with NFC hardware that was capable of killing a sensor at one time. It's possible for that sort of thing to happen again in future.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="db89, post: 2115093, member: 374526"] LibreLink wasn't originally developed by Abbott - it was farmed out to a 3rd party up until last year when Abbott brought it in house. Back then, it worked with few Android devices at all without modifying the APK to remove Play Store device restrictions and then it was a game of pot luck with your NFC chip and OS version (worked well with the circa-2016 Nexus devices). Abbott have actually been pretty good in my experience in supporting newer devices since they took over development. The only issue I've seen on my Pixel 2 XL was a failure to scan when in-app noises were enabled after the Pie 9.0 release last year but there was a workaround and it was fixed fully soon after. It works up to the August 2019 patch for Android 9.0 on this device. I think they still use the Play Store device restriction capability to stop incompatible devices from getting the app but they perhaps need to change their documentation a bit. It would be fairly difficult to maintain an active list of every Android device they do/don't support since there are so many manufacturers, models (and variants). If they can work out a set of parameters which would make a device compatible or not and document this in an understandable format it would be easier to maintain. However, I can see even that being difficult as some devices were fitted with NFC hardware that was capable of killing a sensor at one time. It's possible for that sort of thing to happen again in future. [/QUOTE]
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