Monday 13 April 2015

Bluetooth Communication Android.

Bluetooth Communications

The Android Bluetooth communications APIs are wrappers around RFCOMM, the Bluetooth radio frequency communications protocol. RFCOMM supports RS232 serial communication over the Logical Link Control and Adaptation Protocol (L2CAP) layer.
 
In practice, this alphabet soup provides a mechanism for opening communication sockets between two paired Bluetooth devices.
 
Before your application can communicate between devices, the devices must be paired (bonded). If users attempt to connect two unpaired devices, they will be prompted to pair them before the connection is established.
 
You can establish an RFCOMM communication channel for bidirectional communications using the following classes. 

BluetoothServerSocket — Used to establish a listening socket for initiating a link between devices. To establish a handshake, one device acts as a server to listen for, and accept, incoming connection requests. 

BluetoothSocket — Used to create a new client to connect to a listening Bluetooth Server Socket. Also returned by the Bluetooth Server Socket after a connection is established. 
Once a connection is established, Bluetooth Sockets are used by both the server and client to transfer data streams.
 
When creating an application that uses Bluetooth as a peer-to-peer transport layer, you’ll need to implement both a Bluetooth Server Socket to listen for connections and a Bluetooth Socket to initiate a new channel and handle communications.


When connected, the Bluetooth Server Socket returns a Bluetooth Socket that’s then used by the server device to send and receive data. This server-side Bluetooth Socket is used in exactly the same way as the client socket. The designations of server and client are relevant only to how the connec- tion is established; they don’t affect how data fl ows after that connection is made.

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