Re: [web-bluetooth] Not working on Xiaomi Mi 3 with Android 4.4 (KitKat) version

... and the reason Chrome does not attempt to be backwards compatible 
and
use multiple APIs is because M is the first version that allows 
runtime
permission requests. Older versions of android would block users from
updating Chrome without accepting a new up-front Bluetooth permission 
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and any upgrade friction to Chrome is a security risk for users.

On Fri, Mar 25, 2016 at 7:52 AM, Giovanni Ortuno 
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> Yes. KitKat is not supported. The BLE APIs in KitKat are different 
than
> the APIs in L and M, which are the APIs Web Bluetooth uses.
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