there is a single ethernet port in the emulated system. It is connected to an internal firewall/router within the emulator code that emulates all connectivity through standard BSD sockets. Which connection is used depends entirely on your host machine setup, but wifi or no wifi doesn't have any importance to the emulated system.
second, wifi is not supported in the emulator because it is darn impossible to properly emulate that at the low-level protocol layer, and doing any kind of bridging at a higher layer requires invasive modifications to the system that would be no use to a normal device (except that they introduce much more complexity and potential for bugs / security issues). in the future, we're likely to create emulator-specific system images that can have all kinds of hacks in them to support whatever weird feature, if possible. Right now, we're essentially using the same system images for devices and the emulator, which makes this kind of modifications unreasonable. (yes, it also means that current device images already have a few emulator-specific hacks in them, and we want to get rid of them). On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:50 PM, Billy Bob <billybob5...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I've been trying to create a local connection to a computer with a > Socket from the emulator thinking that it would automagically uses a > emulated wifi connection. It doesn't work, in particular because wifi > is not supported on the emulator: > - Does a Socket connection automatically choose the fastest > connection (the wifi one if it exists). > - Why wifi not supported by the emulator? Will it be? > > For those in countries still not blessed by the grace of having the > possibility to buy a Gphone, that can be useful... > > BB > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-developers-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
