TL;DR

CAPod uses an unofficial workaround to talk to AirPods. It could break with any future Android update, and there's nothing we can do about it on our side.

We've filed a request asking Google to add an official Android API: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/510252114

You can help us push Google to fix this.

How to help (30 seconds)

1. Open the Google ticket: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/510252114
2. Sign in with any Google account.
3. Click the +1 button at the top of the page.

That's it. The more +1s the ticket gets, the more likely Google will prioritize the work.

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What's actually broken (optional reading)

AirPods talk to your phone over a specific Bluetooth feature called BR/EDR L2CAP. Android supports this feature internally, but doesn't give apps an official API to use it.

CAPod accesses the hidden internal method through reflection plus a runtime workaround. It works today, but it's fragile by design — Google can change the internals at any time.

Google already fixed the underlying transport bug. We're now asking them to add the missing public API so apps like CAPod can stop relying on the hack.