BlueCove on Android

[Vlad Skarzhevskyy]

Do you think it is possible to make BlueCove version for current
Android platform?

If we can use D-Bus using AF_LOCAL/UNIX domain sockets available in
SDK http://developer.android.com/reference/android/net/LocalSocket.html
can it connect to BlueZ on Android ?

Another question is can we make JNI library on Android. We still need
to access AF_BLUETOOTH sockets.

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Vlad

[Mina Shokry]

I read this before. someone explained a tweak to make JNI on android but I don't remember where.
but why not we just wait to see official bluetooth APIs in android SDK and implement blucove over them.
Android APIs for bluetooth will appear soon or later.

[Mark Swanson]

Interesting idea. It makes sense to me that D-Bus should be the standard
supported BT API on Android. It seems it is D-Bus/BlueZ is available on
the Android:

http://groups.google.com/group/android-porting/msg/24d7a32157dcd28d

It doesn't sound that positive because of this comment: " which is all
really what bluetooth device can do on Android. :( "

[Vlad Skarzhevskyy]

Update 1:
Looking at the project http://code.google.com/p/android-random/
Code Example JNITest
so JNI should work

Update 2:
I just received a "Android Dev Phone 1"
Will keep you posted on updates.

[Vlad Skarzhevskyy]

This is updates
D-Bus socket path on android is unix:path=/dev/socket/dbus

ls -l /dev/socket/dbus
srw-rw---- bluetooth bluetooth 2009-03-31 19:27 dbus

So when I made application that connect to D-Bus on Android I got:

org.freedesktop.dbus.exceptions.DBusException: Failed to connect to
bus Permission denied

On 1.0 adb shell gives you root access
So I did
chmod 777 /dev/socket/dbus
BTW This need to be done after every reboot of the phone .

Then I got another error
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: U_ILLEGAL_ARGUMENT_ERROR
at com.ibm.icu4jni.text.RuleBasedCollator.setDecomposition(RuleBasedCollator.java:400)
at java.text.Collator.setDecomposition(Collator.java:284)
at org.freedesktop.dbus.Transport$SASL.<clinit>(Transport.java:108)

Presumably this can be fixed......

this is as far as i gone today.

Conclusion the current state of Android would not allow us to make
User Bluetooth application.
We can still make is as prove of concept.