Sounds like a good case for a cloud services, what about windows mobile services? Then it would 'just work' for the user.
On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 12:55 PM, Ian Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Katherine – not an option, since the UPDRS testing system has been written > already with the Android SDK (java). There is a nice (bit expensive) > commercial tool for facilitating C# development for Android, and with > 2-core and 4-core devices running Mono on these is a very real option. *** > * > ------------------------------ > > **Ian Thomas** > Victoria Park, ****Western Australia******** > > ** ** > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Katherine Moss > *Sent:* Tuesday, November 20, 2012 9:41 AM > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* RE: [OT] Android - Windows communications**** > > ** ** > > I don’t have much experience (stil learning C#), but did you look into > mono for Android? **** > > **** > > *From:* [email protected] [ > mailto:[email protected] <[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**** >
