Rapid Android Development

Wrapping Up

You’ve mastered the exchange of data across devices within a Wi-Fi network. You’ve learned how to package diverse data types into OSC messages, send them across wireless local area networks, and unpack them on the other side. You’ve got devices talking to each other, which you can now easily expand into other application contexts, including making the Android a remote control for other devices on the network.

But if we don’t have access to a Wi-Fi network and we’d like to exchange data with other Android devices directly, peer-to-peer, what can we do? All fourth-generation Android devices are equipped with Bluetooth, so in the next chapter we’ll take a look at this short-distance wireless technology, and we’ll also explore an emerging ...