On 10/20/2011 07:04 AM, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote: > Hello, > > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Timur Mehrvarz > <[email protected]> wrote: >> On 20.10.2011 02:59, Paul Gardner-Stephen wrote: >>> We are also actively engaging in the IEEE 802.11 standards process to >>> get ad-hoc fixed (ask me if you need information about the problems >>> with using ad-hoc WiFi to form mesh networks) >> >> Are these radio related issues or are API's missing? Can you elaborate? > > Android (even IcecreamCake) lacks APIs to access ad-hoc WiFi. > As a result, we need root access, and then we need to figure out how > to control the wifi chipset and associated drivers on any given model > of cell phone. We have a paper coming out later in the year that > describes some of the foo we have had to do to generalise this process > as far as possible.
Hello. Here are some new 'IcecreamCake' specific API's: http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/wifi/p2p/package-summary.html http://developer.android.com/resources/samples/WiFiDirectDemo/index.html "Android now supports Wi-Fi Direct for peer-to-peer (P2P) connections between Android-powered devices and other device types without a hotspot or Internet connection. The Android framework provides a set of Wi-Fi P2P APIs that allow you to discover and connect to other devices when each device supports Wi-Fi Direct..." Sounds useful, doesn't it? Timur _______________________________________________ Freedombox-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/freedombox-discuss
