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So you are not sure ;) Agreed, time to write some samples and test it out.
Peli wrote:
> Muthu,
>
>
>> Are you sure we can use IPC between phones?
>>
>
> If you write a small sample program that demonstrates how to do it,
> then - yes - I'm quite sure ;-)
>
> Peli
>
> On Feb 20, 1:28 pm, Muthu Ramadoss <muthu.ramad...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Peli,
>>
>> Are you sure we can use IPC between phones?
>>
>>
>>> Applications that live on
>>> different Android phones can start to talk to each other quickly and
>>> directly without the need of user interaction.
>>>
>> On Feb 20, 1:02 pm, Peli <peli0...@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
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So Android doesn't support RPC directly. If we want we can make use of
IPC to mimic RPC. Is this correct?
Peli wrote:
> Muthu,
>
> Inter-process communication (IPC; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-process_communication
> ) is such a general concept. The easiest implementation is, I give you
> a phone call and ask "Muthu, what is 3+5", you type it in your Android
> calculator ( http://openhandsetmagazine.com/tag/calculator/ ), call me
> back, and tell me the answer. So I invoked some calculation on your
> phone through a "remote procedure *call*" (pun intended ;-).
>
> Whether you do it through SMS, XMPP, SOAP, or ZeroC's ICE is up to
> you. It seems Android would prefer XMPP bundling intents, but I have
> not the slightest doubt that something like this is possible. It is
> just a matter of implementing whatever you want to have.
>
> Peli
>
> PS: Here is a tutorial how to do it through SMS:
> http://www.anddev.org/recognize-react_on_incoming_sms-t295.html
>
>
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