[android-developers] Re: NFC a viable sync mechanism?

2011-02-09 Thread davemac
As of today, Android 2.3.3 has a lot more support for NFC, including writing tags and some peer-to-peer communications. I haven't even scratched the surface yet so can't vouch for the new features, but definitely check it out. - dave On Jan 26, 2:05 am, andrew and...@mackenzie-serres.net wrote:

[android-developers] Re: NFC a viable sync mechanism?

2011-01-25 Thread davemac
In theory, it could be. Android doesn't have the NFC API fleshed out enough to allow this yet. You might be able to get to it via Android NDK and native code. - dave On Jan 25, 7:17 pm, Zsolt Vasvari zvasv...@gmail.com wrote: Is NFC a viable synch mechanism for exchange bi-directional small

[android-developers] Re: NFC a viable sync mechanism?

2011-01-25 Thread Zsolt Vasvari
Thanks. What's missing from the Android SDK? Does anybody have a suggestion for a good peer-to-peer comm technology? I don't want to use Bump as it requires a cloud component, which I don't want. On Jan 26, 10:52 am, davemac davemac...@gmail.com wrote: In theory, it could be. Android doesn't

[android-developers] Re: NFC a viable sync mechanism?

2011-01-25 Thread andrew
For smallish amounts of info NFC is viable. We do this between NFC phones, but Android API doesn't expose the Peer to Peer mode yet. Also, NFC can transfer other types of connection handoffs (Bluetooth and wifi) so then the devices can continue a longer and faster transfer while maintaining a