How to enable or disable Bluetooth in android programmatically

In this post, we will see how to enable or disable Bluetooth in android programmatically.
It is very simple to enable or disable bluetooth from android code.
For enabling Bluetooth:

BluetoothAdapter adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
adapter.enable();

For disabling Bluetooth:

BluetoothAdapter adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
adapter.disable();

So you can enable or disable Bluetooth using BluetoothAdapter class.
You need to add extra permissions in AndroidManifest.xml to enable or disable Bluetooth.

Source code:

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Step 1 :

Create an android application project named “EnableDisableBluetoothApp”.

Step 2:

Add following permissions in AndoridManifest.xml.


 Go to app -> src -> main -> AndroidManifest.xml and add above permissions. AndroidManifest.xml will look like below xml.
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

 
 
 
 

Step 3 :

Change res ->layout -> activity_main.xml as below:




 

 

Step 4:

Change src/main/packageName/MainActivity.java as below:

package com.java2blog.enabledisablebluetoothapp;

import android.bluetooth.BluetoothAdapter;
import android.content.Context;
import android.net.wifi.WifiManager;
import android.os.Bundle;
import android.support.v7.app.AppCompatActivity;
import android.widget.CompoundButton;
import android.widget.TextView;
import android.widget.ToggleButton;

import com.java2blog.enabledisablebluetoothapp.R;

public class MainActivity extends AppCompatActivity {

    ToggleButton toggleButton;
    TextView textView;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_main);

        // Getting toggle button and textView from activity_main
        toggleButton = (ToggleButton) findViewById(R.id.toggleButton);
        textView = (TextView) findViewById(R.id.textView);

        // Put listener on toggle button
        toggleButton.setOnCheckedChangeListener(new CompoundButton.OnCheckedChangeListener() {
            @Override
            public void onCheckedChanged(CompoundButton compoundButton, boolean checked) {
                if (checked) {
                    textView.setText("Bluetooth is ON");
                    BluetoothAdapter adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
                    adapter.enable();
                } else {
                    textView.setText("Bluetooth is OFF");
                    BluetoothAdapter adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
                    adapter.disable();
                }
            }
        });
        // For initial setting
        if (toggleButton.isChecked()) {
            textView.setText("Bluetooth is ON");
            BluetoothAdapter adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
            adapter.enable();
        } else {
            textView.setText("Bluetooth is OFF");
            BluetoothAdapter adapter = BluetoothAdapter.getDefaultAdapter();
            adapter.disable();
        }
    }
}

Step 5:

Run the app
When you run the app, you will get below screen:

When you click on toggle button, you will get below screen:

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