>From lmb Wed Feb 3 14:20:56 2010 Subject: Re: [SLL] Wifi connection to Android OS To: [email protected] (John Locke) Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 14:20:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <[email protected]> X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL8] Content-Length: 1993
Hello John and others, The connection is the problem, not the service. I can't rely on having an internet connection for both the PC and phone, so I need some way to connect them directly. Thanks to all for your responses. Just some futher notes: Regarding tethering, what I meant was if I do tether the PC through the phone, even if the phone has no upstream, I can talk between the PC and the phone. I do know what tethering is. I've tested this method with root access on the Android and it works fine. I have looked at little USB mini-routers for the notebook. Every one I've looked at so far is not what I would call reliable. I don't think lugging a full sized router, requiring an AC plug is practical. Again, I appreciate everyone's insight. Thanks! Regards, Larry > I'm a web developer, so I immediately think, why not use a web service? > > http is very well-defined. If you need push as well as pull, perhaps XMPP? > > Cheers, > John > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: [SLL] Wifi connection to Android OS > From: [email protected] (Larry M Bateman) > To: Linux List <[email protected]> > Date: Wed 03 Feb 2010 09:59:08 AM PST > > 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 --- %A forwarded message by lmb --- -- Larry M. Bateman, <[email protected]> L3 Systems PO Box 2954, Redmond, WA 98073 Tel: (425)836-5438 Fax: (425)460-1011
