Is Bluetooth an option? Many smart phones these days support Bluetooth as do many laptops.
On 2/3/10, Derek Simkowiak <[email protected]> wrote: >> /An easy answer is wifi (801C) tethering/ > > > Do you have a reference for this "801C"? I'd like to learn more > about it. > > Also, a nit about terminology: "tethering" usually means sharing > you're phone/PDA's Internet connection with the laptop. For example, > using a T-Mobile 3G data plan for surfing the web on your laptop: > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tethering > http://mytechbox.wordpress.com/2009/06/07/is-your-mobile-ready-for-wi-fi-tethering/ > http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/ > > That does not sound like what you described. As I read it, you are > only looking for Android -> Laptop connectivity, not Laptop -> [tether] > -> Internet connectivity. > > > If the only equipment is the laptop and the Android phone, then > there is no easy answer. Android will not host an ad-hoc WiFi network > without being rooted. And I doubt that you want to support a bunch of > Windows users who are trying to configure their Laptop to act as an > ad-hoc WiFi host for their Android phone. > > To keep things simple and marketable, I'd try a different approach. > Abandon the "peer-to-peer via ad hoc network" idea. Just write a simple > client/server application that uses TCP/IP. Then the user can use > whatever form of "wireless" that they want to -- up to and including an > ad hoc WiFi network. > > For most users, that would mean they'd need a $50 WiFi router for > the laptop and the Android device to both connect to. That avoids the > need to set up an "ad hoc" network on the laptop. But other users could > opt to use the 3G data plan that came with their phone to upload the > data to an Internet-connected server. In your app the user would only > need to punch in the IP Address (and port) of the server. > > --Derek > > On 02/03/2010 09:59 AM, Larry M Bateman wrote: >> 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. >> >> > -- Sent from my mobile device Steve McCarthy [email protected] [email protected]
