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 It is more suited to resource constrained devices than bluedroid and has now been ported to the ESP32 by Espressif.  
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+# Development Status
+[Latest release ![Release Version](https://img.shields.io/github/release/h2zero/esp-nimble-cpp.svg?style=plastic) 
+![Release Date](https://img.shields.io/github/release-date/h2zero/esp-nimble-cpp.svg?style=plastic)](https://github.com/h2zero/NimBLE-Arduino/releases/latest/) 
+![Downloads](https://img.shields.io/github/downloads/h2zero/esp-nimble-cpp/latest/total.svg?style=plastic)  
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 # Installation
 
 ### ESP-IDF v4.0+