As Jason suggested you can write a simple protocol which finds out about the clients within your wireless LAN. Something like
+ clients which are interested to be part of the file transfer within your WLAN are listening to the LAN broadcast ip address + sender sends out a request to all clients which are interested in receiving the file + all clients interested are responding back with their IP address + start your file transfer (ftp or http post) using the client IP address (if you have multiple clients you can loop through the list of clients) Note: you could also use the broadcast IP (more efficient) address for the file transfer but then everyone on the wireless LAN could receive the file. -- 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 Nov 9, 3:47 pm, Jason Proctor <jason.android.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > you could broadcast on a known port number to > find each other, then once you've done that, use > HTTP GET/PUT on another known port. HTTP servers > are pretty easy to write, and there is a client > in the Android SDK. > > > > >Roman, > > >Thanks for the response. What I am trying to do > >is, write a program be able to send a file of > >any type (but probably an mp3) from one android > >phone to another android phone. The two phone > >will only be a few meters apart if that. > >Bluetooth was not working very well I was just > >getting a lot of problems. Both phone are using > >android 1.5 do you have any tips on setting ftp > >client/server and android. > > >Thanks and Regards > >Mike > > >On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Abhi > ><<mailto:abhishek.r.sha...@gmail.com>abhishek.r.sha...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > > >Hi Romain, > > >To add to my above note, the preferred wireless connection would be Wi- > >Fi and not Bluetooth. > > >Is there a way to find out what devices are connected to your WLAN? > >Like how we do a scan for Wireless Access Points. Is there a way by > >which these Wireless devices can share MAC addresses to identify each > >other? > > >Thanks, > > >Abhi > > >On Nov 9, 1:59 pm, Abhi > ><<mailto:abhishek.r.sha...@gmail.com>abhishek.r.sha...@gmail.com> > >wrote: > >> Hi, > > >> I am trying to do a similar thing but not between two phones. I am > >> trying to accomplish wireless printing to my home wireless printer. > >> Could you please guide me through to the initial steps? > > >> Thanks, > > >> Abhi > > >> On Nov 9, 1:50 pm, "Roman ( T-Mobile USA)" <roman.baumgaert...@t- > > >> <http://mobile.com>mobile.com> wrote: > >> > You can write a ftp like client/server application. Use TCP socket > >> > communication for the file transfer application. > > >> > If you are in the same network you have not to worry about too much. > >> > If you try to do a file transfer on cellular things get more > >> > complicated. Let me know what you exactly are trying to accomplish. > > >> > -- > >> > 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 Nov 8, 10:00 am, Mike88 > >><<mailto:michael...@gmail.com>michael...@gmail.com> > >>wrote: > > >> > > Hello, > > >> > > Can some give me advice on what I could use to write code to transfer > >> > > a file from one phone to another.- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > >> - Show quoted text - > > >-- > >You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > >Groups "Android Developers" group. > >To post to this group, send email to > ><mailto:android-developers@googlegroups.com>android-developers@googlegroups.com > >To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > ><mailto:android-developers%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com>android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > >For more options, visit this group at > ><http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > >-- > >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>http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en > > -- > jason.vp.engineering.particle -- 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
