Background
Android phones supporting Wi-Fi Aware 4.0 should be able to connect with iPhones (iOS 26). For testing, we selected two Samsung S25 devices, which support Wi-Fi Aware 4.0.
Issues we are facing
Android as Publisher, iOS as Subscriber.iOS cannot discover the service. Log shows: Discovery: Dropping event, 02:14:60:76:a6:0f missing DCEA attribute.
iOS as Publisher, Android as Subscriber,Android can discover the service.However, the PIN code is not displayed on iOS.
From the packet capture, the publish packet does not contain the DCEA field. However, Android-to-Android devices can still pair normally, and the subsequent PASN packets include the DCEA field. It seems that the Wi-Fi Alliance only requires the DCEA to be present in the PASN packets.
iOS cannot discover Android devices or complete pairing — is this caused by the DCEA field, or by other reasons?