I don't have much experience (stil learning C#), but did you look into mono for Android?
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ian Thomas Sent: Monday, November 19, 2012 8:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OT] Android - Windows communications Does anyone have any hobby / work experience with this, which they can share with me? I need to understand what the 2-way file transfer can be between Android tablet devices and Windows. (Off-list appreciated) My naïve impression is that older Android devices and OS (3.x) are not so good, and that USB and WiFi is not viable, but that most newer devices with the various v4 OS are quite capable and the SDK/API is also a lot more capable for coding that. The "home" project I'm working on has part of its user-facing operation on Android tablets (programmed by another using Eclipse with SDK and emulator on Windows), and part on Windows (me, one other). Users perform touch-based tests (tapping on the surface) on the tablet, and that operation is captured on video, the camera and control (and later data collation, etc) being on Windows. In order to synchronize data files, without having the user enter some unique ID that can be used to relate data, my best solution would be for the Windows machine to generate a GUID and simply write that to a file on the Android device for consumption by the tablet. >From what I'm told, USB connection between Android and PC is not an option - >at least on Android 3.x (I have forgotten what the problem is - 1-way file >transfer, API not good, ??). >From my research, either or both these Android apps (ES File Explorer + SwiFTP >) might be useful. I'm leaning towards wireless communication directly between >the Android and Windows, in code. The idea of a user having to muck about with >these 2 apps as well as the Windows application and the tablet test itself is >not attractive, principally as the primary users are people with Parkinson's. ________________________________ Ian Thomas Victoria Park, Western Australia
