I agree with the post from James that socket communication might be not the best approach when you work on Android SDK level.
Android supports the intent and the aidl mechanism which you can use for IPC on the device. http://developer.android.com/guide/developing/tools/aidl.html Advantage of using these mechanisms is that they are easier to debug than socket communication. -- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Jul 14, 10:08 am, Moto <[email protected]> wrote: > I just googled: "java async socket" > And got this tutorial:http://games.fabiolee.com/post.asp?id=418 > > I'm not sure if it helps... > > Moto! > > On Jul 14, 11:17 am, Walter <[email protected]> wrote: > > > You usually need different threads to read and write, prevent > > blocking the UI thread. > > > On Jul 14, 12:49 am, Victor Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Well, but will the read of InputStream blocked when there is no > > > incoming data? > > > I mean... for example: > > > > I run the sock in specific thread, because those methods' call will > > > blocked. The code might like this: > > > > /// This is the socket thread for checking data > > > while not stop: > > > data = read(); // if no incoming data, we will blocked here > > > > The client program needs to check the data from sever, so it run a > > > loop to read data. And how about outgoing data? Can I send out going > > > data from another thread? like this. > > > > // this is called from UI thread > > > void onClick() { > > > outputStream.write("hello baby!"); > > > > } > > > > On 7月14日, 下午2時21分, James <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > Hi Victor Lin: > > > > I don't know why could your problem happen,As One socket have both > > > > inputstream and outputstreams,They are responsible for read and write; > > > > And as far as i call tell,Socket is not android-specified,Hope this > > > > helps! > > > > > Bgs! > > > > James > > > > > On Jul 14, 12:57 pm, Victor Lin <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am developing a program that needs async socket. I am new to Android > > > > > and Java. As I can see in the document, to write network program, I > > > > > got Socket and SocketChannel, but it seems they are all sync socket, > > > > > it means, I need an extra thread to call blocking read, write... and > > > > > etc. Here comes the problem, my program is a chat room, the > > > > > communicate is not linear, I have no idea when the server will send a > > > > > message to me, if I read in that thread to wait message from server, > > > > > but the user want to send message to server, the reading function > > > > > blocked forever, if there is no incoming data, then the pending > > > > > outgoing message will not be sent. That's why I need async socket. So > > > > > my question is: How to write async socket under Android environment? > > > > > > Thanks. > > > > > Victor Lin. > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
