Web serial over Bluetooth on Android

Category: Device
Type: Chromium catches up
Status: In development (Chrome In development)
Intent stage: None

Summary

This feature allows web pages and web apps to connect to serial ports over Bluetooth on Android devices. Chrome on Android now supports Web Serial API over Bluetooth RFCOMM. Existing enterprise policies (DefaultSerialGuardSetting, SerialAllowAllPortsForUrls, SerialAllowUsbDevicesForUrls, SerialAskForUrls and SerialBlockedForUrls) on other platforms are enabled in future_on states for Android. All policies except SerialAllowUsbDevicesForUrls will be enabled after the feature is enabled. SerialAllowUsbDevicesForUrls will be enabled in a future launch after Android provides system level support of wired serial ports.

Motivation

This feature provides web developers with capabilities of connecting to serial ports over Bluetooth RFCOMM on Android devices, which has been supported by Android for a long time.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://wicg.github.io/serial
Firefox: Neutral
Safari: Negative
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://g-issues.chromium.org/issues/375245353

Docs: https://web.dev/serial

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