The emulator does not support Wifi, but it does support networking. It will piggyback onto the host's network and forward packets to the device as if the Wifi was always available. This means that you can ping other machines on your network, connect to the Internet, do pretty much all the networking that the Wifi service will provide on the physical device.
What it does not give you, is a fully working Wifi service. So you can't query for the IP address of the emulated "phone" (it returns "0") or scan for access points on the network (the API call returns an empty list). So really, it depends on what your requirements are. If you just want networking, the emulator supports it. If you want access to the Wifi interface itself, the emulator does not take over the physical NIC on your machine, so is fairly limited in that area. On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 2:44 PM, java_knight <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm guessing you've been asked this countless times, but I've not seen > any indication of development towards it's resolution, so I thought > I'd reiterate.. > > I'm looking to promote Androids use at a University for a group of > students who are keen on mobile computing. I'm a little put off by > the fact that the emulator does not support WIFI or bluetooth. The > University is reluctant to invest in buying the actual devices unless > I convince them it would be a useful contribution to the course. > Ideally, I would like students to test applications using an emulator > then move forward to using an actual device (when I finally get the > budget to do so). At the moment, we are using .net compact and JME > (both of which has support for network communications be it bluetooth > or WIFI). Do you know if this feature will be available in the very > near future? > > > Regards, > > Stephen > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" 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-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
