One thing to note is that the emulator does not support bluetooth feature.

On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 6:07 PM, CaptainFanatic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> Thanks for your replies.
> Looking at the rfcomm link above it looks like the easiest way to send
> data is by writing a byte array to an OutputStream on the
> RfcommSocket.
> So it looks like it will just be a case of forming an xml string from
> a query on my content provider, converting it into a byte array and
> sending it.
> Sounds easy!
>
>
> On Mar 28, 8:38 am, Diego Pino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Never used the bluetooth API, although regarding your other question
> > you can write down data to a file. Files are stored under folder
> > files/ in your application home directory (usually, data/data/<package-
> > name>/
> >
> > If you are going to use a ContenProvider (most likely a sqlite
> > database) I would skip the XML serialize step. Maybe you could read
> > your data from your ContentProvider and componse XML output on-the-
> > fly, then send it to your peer. For parsing XML I used SAX and works
> > fine, I did not try any DOM API, do not even know if there is any
> > delivered together with Android.
> >
> > br
> >
> > On Mar 27, 7:56 pm, "Megha Joshi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > >  Hi,
> >
> > >  It is possible to send data via bluetooth using the RFCOMM class.
> Please
> > > check out the documentation at:
> >
> > >  http://code.google.com/android/reference/org/bluez/RfcommSocket.html
> >
> > >  Thanks,
> > >  Megha
> >
> > > On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:36 PM, CaptainFanatic <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > > I want to share data between two android phones, preferably by
> sending
> > > > XML files, and I'm hoping for some feedback on what is the best way
> to
> > > > do this. The reason I want to use XML is to keep things loosely
> > > > coupled - this data could then be shared with apps on other
> platforms
> > > > etc.
> >
> > > > One method I'm considering is (assuming there will be a standard
> > > > bluetooth application for sharing files) to dump data from the SQL
> > > > backend of my application into an XML file, that can then be sent in
> > > > the same manner as any other file over bluetooth to another phone. I
> > > > see that android has methods to write to a file, but where will this
> > > > file live and will I be able to access it from a bluetooth app to
> then
> > > > send it?
> >
> > > > I look forward to hearing any thoughts on this- Hide quoted text -
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> >
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