I'm looking at doing an application for Android that needs to make a connection to a local PC (typically a notebook) and be able to send a few bytes back and forth. I need wireless connection, so a USB cable won't do the trick. Also I need a fairly good range, so Bluetooth isn't viable.
An easy answer is wifi (801C) tethering, but that is either completely disallowed (T-Mobile/ATT), or very costly (Verizon). Root hacks allow you to do this, but that's not viable for a real product. I know there's a new spec for local device interfaces under wifi, but that's a number of years down the road. Any ideas? Thanks in advance. -- Larry M. Bateman, <[email protected]> L3 Systems PO Box 2954, Redmond, WA 98073 Tel: (425)836-5438 Fax: (425)460-1011
