title: Initiate a bluetooth tether programmatically
body: <p>The Android bluetooth class is fairly easy to use with regards to enabling, discovering, listing paired devices, and connecting to bluetooth devices.</p>
  
  <p>My plan was to initiate a connection to another bluetooth device that provides tethering via bluetooth.  </p>
  
  <p>After a bit of investigation, this doesn't look feasible - it looks like I'd have to implement the profile myself, and have root access to do the networking, and do everything in an app.</p>
  
  <p>There also doesn't seem to be an intent I can trigger via Settings to initiate a bluetooth connection, the best I can do is turn it on.</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something - if the system doesn't expose a method for initiating a system level bluetooth connection, am I out of luck?</p>