[android-developers] Re: Need help in remote networking in Android phone over 3G

2010-03-03 Thread Bob Kerns
It's simple -- they don't. Instead, the device accesses a server periodically. It's possible to jump-start the process with an SMS message, rather than blindly polling. This also saves considerable battery power. See, for example: https://labs.ericsson.com/apis/mobile-java-push/downloads The

Re: [android-developers] Re: Need help in remote networking in Android phone over 3G

2010-03-03 Thread Mike Mackintosh
Is there an Android.provider for incoming data packets? How hard to create on? On Mar 3, 2010 3:41 AM, Bob Kerns r...@acm.org wrote: It's simple -- they don't. Instead, the device accesses a server periodically. It's possible to jump-start the process with an SMS message, rather than blindly