[BRLTTY] BRLTTy on Anndroid with Brailliant BI 40 X

[Peter Lecky]

Hi Dave,

Isn't that pull request from jacquelinecchuang somehow usable for us?

https://github.com/brltty/brltty/pull/440

On 7. 5. 2025 20:27, Dave Mielke wrote:
> [quoted lines by Daniel Gartmann on 2025/05/07 at 08:42 +0200]
>
>> After having read some more threads on this list, I would like to ask if
>> BRLTTY supports the HID protocol on Android? If not, could that be the
>> reason why I can’t get my Brailliant BI 40 X to work on my Pixel?
> Yes, but let me make this statement more explicit. It's why you can't use it via Bluetooth. It should work via USB.
>
> The problem is that Google made a very deliberate design decision, some years ago, that it's a security risk for an app that isn't part of the base system to be able to see a device's HID descriptor. It's probably time to recheck this to see if it's still true.
>
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