Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-07 Thread Nick Pelly
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Qwavel qwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dianne, Thanks for your response. I'd like to address some of your points. users should not worry about the apps they install doing unexpected harmful things I believe that limiting the functionality of the phone/API

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-07 Thread Wang, Husheng
Hi all, Which group should I put the messages about *cupcake* bluetooth into? Any idea? thanks, husheng Qwavel wrote: Is there any update on this? Specifically, have decisions been made about whether to limit bluetooth comm to paired devices - as discussed below? Thanks, Tom. On Dec

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-07 Thread Qwavel
On Jan 7, 3:20 am, Nick Pelly npe...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 8:44 PM, Qwavel qwa...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Dianne, Thanks for your response.  I'd like to address some of your points. users should not worry about the apps they install doing unexpected harmful things

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-06 Thread Qwavel
Is there any update on this? Specifically, have decisions been made about whether to limit bluetooth comm to paired devices - as discussed below? Thanks, Tom. On Dec 22 2008, 1:01 am, Qwavel qwa...@gmail.com wrote: Nick, Thanks for participating in this open conversation about thebluetooth

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-06 Thread Dianne Hackborn
I think you are being overly dismissive of the security repercussions. One of our goals with Android is to create an open and thriving third party application market. Two cornerstones of doing this is that it should be dead easy for a user to find and install an application, and users should not

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-06 Thread Nick Pelly
On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Qwavel qwa...@gmail.com wrote: Is there any update on this? Specifically, have decisions been made about whether to limit bluetooth comm to paired devices - as discussed below? We are unlikely to have this in the first Bluetooth API release. I don't think

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-06 Thread Qwavel
On Jan 6, 10:26 pm, Dianne Hackborn hack...@android.com wrote: I think you are being overly dismissive of the security repercussions.  One of our goals with Android is to create an open and thriving third party application market.  Two cornerstones of doing this is that it should be dead

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-06 Thread Qwavel
Nick, I'm sorry to hear this, but I understand the need to add some sort of bluetooth API to Android as quickly as possible. I look forward to v1.1. Thanks, Tom. On Jan 6, 11:07 pm, Nick Pelly npe...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 7:10 PM, Qwavel qwa...@gmail.com wrote: Is there

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2009-01-06 Thread Qwavel
Hi Dianne, Thanks for your response. I'd like to address some of your points. users should not worry about the apps they install doing unexpected harmful things I believe that limiting the functionality of the phone/API enough to achieve complete safety for any application would be very

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-21 Thread Qwavel
Nick, Thanks for participating in this open conversation about the bluetooth API - this is the first time that I'm aware of that outside developers have had the opportunity to express themselves at this stage in the development of a phone OS/API. As I'm sure you are aware, Bluetooth data

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-04 Thread whitemice
Hi Nick I can see there is a use case for this. If we were to do this, it would be through a scary sounding bluetooth permission. This application can connect to untrusted Bluetooth devics. We'll have to think about this a little. I would do it this way: (1) Application permission: This

RE: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-04 Thread Marcio Alexandroni
: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth Hi Nick I can see there is a use case for this. If we were to do this, it would be through a scary sounding bluetooth permission. This application can connect to untrusted Bluetooth devics. We'll have to think about this a little. I would do it this way

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-03 Thread whitemice
Hi Nick While we are on the subject, I am looking for Android *Ad-hoc* Bluetooth support. Example: Alice and Bob both have my client running on their phones, and walk within Bluetooth range of each other in a social setting. I want the application to: (a) Be able to detect the other Bluetooth

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-03 Thread Nick Pelly
We are likely to prevent Bluetooth data connections (RFCOMM) from apps unless the two phones have been paired. It's really hard to make security work any other way. Nick Android Systems Engineer On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 1:37 AM, whitemice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Nick While we are on the

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-03 Thread whitemice
Hi Nick Thanks for getting back to me. We are likely to prevent Bluetooth data connections (RFCOMM) from apps unless the two phones have been paired. It's really hard to make security work any other way. Right, so none of these Symbian apps are possible on Android… Nokia Sensor

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-03 Thread Nick Pelly
I can see there is a use case for this. If we were to do this, it would be through a scary sounding bluetooth permission. This application can connect to untrusted Bluetooth devics. We'll have to think about this a little. The first step is to get any Bluetooth API out. Let me work on that

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-01 Thread supernova
I need to use SPP (Serial Port Profile) --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Android Developers group. To post to this group, send email to android-developers@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this

Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-12-01 Thread Robert Green
I would like to add multiplayer support to Light Racer using bluetooth so whatever allows device discovery, pairing and then streaming transfer is what I need :) On Dec 1, 7:20 am, supernova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to use SPP (Serial Port Profile)

[android-developers] Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-11-25 Thread supernova
Any idea when a version with BT support will be released? I need to choose a mobile platform for a project and BT support is required. On 24 nov, 13:45, Mark Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Android geek wrote: That means, I will have to forget BT until the next release of SDK? You have two

[android-developers] Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-11-25 Thread Dave Sparks
Bluetooth is a big category. What feature(s) do you need? On Nov 25, 1:26 am, supernova [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any idea when a version with BT support will be released? I need to choose a mobile platform for a project and BT support is required. On 24 nov, 13:45, Mark Murphy [EMAIL

[android-developers] Re: Fw: [android-developers] Re: Android and bluetooth

2008-11-24 Thread Mark Murphy
Android geek wrote: That means, I will have to forget BT until the next release of SDK? You have two choices: 1. Work with the core Android team, over on http://source.android.com, to add greater BT support. 2. Wait until that work gets done by somebody else. In either case, to use it in an