On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 4:50 PM, kypriakos <[email protected]> wrote:
> Does the Android platform supports a shell - similar to a linux
> shell ... or only the emulator
> monitor is what represents the "shell" for it?

There is a minimalist Linux shell on Android devices. From the command
line of your hosting PC, use adb shell to access it. The less apps can
rely upon it, the happier the world will be.

> Also In my old standard apps I used to use Socket and readLine or read
> method on them. But I
> don't think the Android java libs have those - is there an easy way to
> convert these ops to
> what Android-based Sockets use?

http://developer.android.com/reference/java/net/Socket.html

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