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The AOSP manifest for the Bluetooth APK itself declares package com.android.bluetooth with the shared user ID android.uid.bluetooth, and the platform's default config_systemBluetoothStack value is com.android.bluetooth, so the Google name is the result of packaging rather than a separate code base in the sources cited here. The com.android.bluetooth package is documented separately on this site.\n\nAOSP describes the Bluetooth module as \"an optional Mainline module introduced in Android 13\", in APEX format, containing the Bluetooth APK defined in packages/modules/Bluetooth/android/app together with its native library and APIs. On this site the package is recorded on 17 device entries on builds from API 33 to API 37: 16 under the Google make (Pixel 6 through Pixel 10 Pro, two sdk_gphone emulator images and a \"GMS on ARM64\" entry) and one Samsung SM-F971B entry at API 37. Its English label is \"Bluetooth\" and it is not user-facing in any observation. Where this site holds signer data, which is 8 of those 17 entries and all of them Google-make, the key is classified as Google and is not one that also signs the Android framework. The aggregate signer record additionally lists HP as a make, which does not appear in this package's device list; that discrepancy could not be explained here.\n\nVersion note: AOSP says that \"In Android 16 and higher, the module is updatable and contains a fully certified dual-mode Bluetooth host stack\". The module's build file reflects a change of container: it keeps a disabled com.android.btservices APEX described as the \"Legacy Bluetooth apex prior to Baklava\" and defines com.android.bt as the \"Mainline bluetooth apex module\" that carries the Bluetooth app. AOSP's documentation page names the module package com.google.android.bt. So the APEX that delivers this app has changed name across releases, while the lowest API level this site records for the app package is 33, in line with the Android 13 introduction.\n\nFor Android Enterprise, EMM and kiosk use, this is the device's Bluetooth application where it is present, so disabling it risks removing Bluetooth function for peripherals, audio and anything else that relies on it. 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