If I recall correctly, Android devices cannot connect to Ad-hoc networks out-of-the-box. There may be some third party utilities which allow certain devices to do this with varying levels of success.
Instead, either one device is configured as an AP, or a newer-than-Adhoc standard called WiFi Direct is used. Android devices may also communicate amongst themselves using Bluetooth, although creating mesh networks/Internet gateways again would require third-party utilities. One such utility (Open Garden) partnered with OLPC for the XO Tablet ( http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/one-laptop-per-child-partners-with-open-garden-to-grow-internet-everywhere-220497161.html ). In general, generic Android to Android device communication was an unsolved problem the last time I looked into this. On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Adam Holt <h...@laptop.org> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 10:36 PM, James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 09:30:30PM -0500, Jerry Vonau wrote: >> > On March 16, 2015 at 9:23 PM James Cameron <qu...@laptop.org> wrote: >> > > >> > > There's no need to go as far as configuring as an access point when >> > > ad-hoc networking will work, with suitable configuration of the other >> > > laptops connecting to it. >> > >> > Has sugar addressed http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/ticket/3708? >> >> Why would you use Sugar? >> > > We'd love to keep some/any version of Sugar on the XO if possible, even if > just so the librarian can putter. > > Important: how compatible is the XO's Ad-Hoc networking with generic > Android tablets/phones and generic/vintage cheap laptops already out there > in the world? Any other low-to-medium complexity protocols we should be > considering, for XO-1.5 and higher especially, that might plausibly sail > with a few weeks of hacking? (that is if a genuine WiFi hotspot brings > more compatibility) > > Anyway: scalability's not a requirement (in this case!) as such community > libraries are tiny, having a couple WiFi devices attached generally, rarely > more. > > -- > Unsung Heroes of OLPC, interviewed live @ http://unleashkids.org ! > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Unleash Kids" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to unleashkids+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >
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