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Carson
Carson

Reputation: 57

Connect two devices on a same wireless network

Is it possible to connect two Android devices into a same wireless network (Access Point) and communicate (e.g. send/receive messages)?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1417

Answers (1)

savanto
savanto

Reputation: 4550

Yes, you will need to run a server app on one device, and a client app on the other.

Server

You will need to create a Service running in the background and listening for connections on a port. This service should implement a ServerSocket which can listen for incoming requests and send replies.

Client

You can create a client that will connect to the server using Socket. This can probably be an Activity with an interface, but be sure to do all of your network connections on a background thread, using eg. AsyncTask, or else your main UI thread will block and the app may crash.

Upvotes: 1

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