When you are in a LAN you can use the IP broadcast address to send out some "hey, it me! Who is out there" messages. Other clients would receive the broadcast and respond back with their IP address.
-- Roman Baumgaertner Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. On Oct 6, 6:22 am, Craig Panton <exo1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hey thanks for the reply. I understand a bit better what I need to do now > but still having a lot of bother on actually finding devices via the ip > address and connecting through this. are there any tutorials or sample code > on how to do this anywhere? > > On Oct 5, 2009 9:30 PM, "Roman ( T-Mobile USA)" < > > roman.baumgaert...@t-mobile.com> wrote: > > You can directly communicate on Wifi from emulator to another phone if > you are in the same LAN. There would be no server required. Only thing > what you have to think about is, how do you get the IP address of your > destination (discovery protocol on Wifi)? > > -- > Roman Baumgaertner > Sr. SW Engineer-OSDC > ·T· · ·Mobile· stick together > The views, opinions and statements in this email are those of the > author solely in their individual capacity, and do not necessarily > represent those of T-Mobile USA, Inc. > > On Oct 3, 5:51 am, ExO PoLiTiX <exo1...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Hi > > > Basically I'm trying to eit... --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---