1,In the Apple document "Accessory-Design-Guidelines.pdf", there is the following description: "Accessories and peer devices integrating Wi-Fi Aware technology shall support the Wi-Fi Aware Specification – Version 4.0".
2,In Android devices, it seems there is no direct way to find devices that comply with the "Wi-Fi Aware Specification – Version 4.0". However, through initial research, in Android, the method Characteristics.isAwarePairingSupported can indicate whether the pairing-related features in Version 4.0 are supported:
/**
Check if the Aware Pairing and all associated security features as defined in Wi-Fi Alliance
(WFA) Wi-Fi Aware Specification version 4.0 are supported.
This includes:...
*/
public boolean isAwarePairingSupported() {
return mCharacteristics.getBoolean(KEY_SUPPORT_NAN_PAIRING);
}
3,On the Amazon Cloud Testing Platform, only the Android phone series Galaxy S25 was found where isAwarePairingSupported shows YES (the Pixel 9 series and Xiaomi 14 series phones do not work).
4,However, pairing between Apple iOS 26 phones and the Android Galaxy S25 still doesn't seem to work; moreover, Apple requires that pairing be completed first before subsequent connections and communications can take place.
Topic:
App & System Services
SubTopic:
Networking
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