I've often wondered whether there were some reasons behind this, like pressure from some carriers.
On the other hand, the iPhone allows this. I wish it were smart enough to figure out which network actually connects to the Internet, though. I just spent some time in the hospital, where the Cisco router with WebSense was foiling every attempt at doing anything even slightly useful. Including sending email from my phone to let people know I wouldn't be delivering, because I was in the hospital. I finally noticed my email was stuck on my phone, and turned off WiFi (at the cost of scarce battery power). On both Android and iPhone, I've had a lot of problems with poor choices of networks. You'd expect more reliable communications having both available -- my experience is that it is less. If WiFi is a bit flaky, connections get dropped from the wifi, and the 3G connection opens if the program retries. So far, so good. But then, when the wifi comes back, the 3G connection is dropped, despite being in use, and the wifi takes over. This strategy gives a distinctively inferior experience! On Aug 2, 5:58 pm, Mark Murphy <mmur...@commonsware.com> wrote: > Your analysis seems the same as mine -- while it is clearly > technically possible, the API does not appear to support it. > > > On Jul 31, 4:30 pm, RickB <rick.bullo...@comcast.net> wrote: > >> Can any version of Android supportsimultaneousconnections on both a > >> mobile network (e.g.3G) and aWiFinetwork? Here's the requirement: > > >> I want to connect to a localWifinetwork of sensors/devices that is > >> not connected to the Internet, and be able to transmit data to an > >> Internet-connected web server. Obviously quite easy to do on > >> virtually any platform in Java, but it seems that Android does not > >> allow multiple networks/radios to be active at a time. > > >> Big flaw, IMO. Should be a configurable option to allow that. > > >> With Froyo and mobile hot spot functionality, clearly it is > >> *technically* possible to do, but I don't want to be theWifi"host", > >> but rather, a "connected client" to anotherWifinetwork, and then do > >> web requests over the3Gnetwork. > -- > Mark Murphy (a Commons > Guy)http://commonsware.com|http://github.com/commonsguyhttp://commonsware.com/blog|http://twitter.com/commonsguy > > _Android Programming Tutorials_ Version 2.9 Available! (Edit: Leaving in Mark's self-promotion, and adding a plug of my own!) -- 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
