On 12 March 2011 16:57, Kristopher Micinski <krismicin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Note that I *never* mentioned using ad hoc mode, where did you get that? Read my previous post. There's no much choice if you go for Wifi - either you use infrastructure mode which require, well, infrastructure with router available, or you got with ad-hoc mode which, on android, requires root and modified drivers. > Otherwise then, yes, but have you tried using Bluetooth for these types of > applications? The instability of it between different types of phones, plus > the requirement that it seems to be only supported well on more recent That's probably true. But we're not talking about implementation quirks yet - just general approach. > phones just seems a bit shady. And I think that having to pair phones seems > like a fairly high barrier to using an app, can you imagine that that would > be at least a little annoying? You see a need of entering 4 digits (usually once per pair of devices) a "high barrier", and at the same time it's no problem that you need hardware router present? Good luck with your app in the woods :) -- Regards, Marcin Orlowski -- 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 group, send email to android-developers+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-developers?hl=en
