Re: Serial Manager API

[Christopher Tate]

If it is not in the SDK as published, then it is not public API and can be expected to vanish or change arbitrarily in the future.

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christopher tate

android framework engineer

On Tue, Feb 19, 2013 at 2:11 PM, Matt Reimer <mre...@sdgsystems.com> wrote:

I see the commit below (in 4.1 and later) implements support for a new SerialManager API. But I see no mention of it on developer.android.com.

Is this a supported API?

Matt

commit b01e8bf57b7492b77e3445db51471edcbadda75e

Author: Mike Lockwood <xx...@android.com>

Date:   Mon Aug 29 20:11:07 2011 -0400

    New Serial Manager API:

    

    SerialManager: provides access to serial ports

    SerialPort: for reading and writing data to and from serial ports

    

    IO with both array based and direct ByteBuffers is supported.

    

    Accessing serial ports requires android.permission.SERIAL_PORT permission

    

    Each platform must configure list of supported serial ports in the

    config_serialPorts resource overlay

    (this is needed to prevent apps from accidentally accessing the bluetooth

    or other system UARTs).

    

    In addition, the platform uevent.rc file must set the owner to the

    /dev/tty* files to "system" so the framework can access the port.

    

    Signed-off-by: Mike Lockwood <xx...@android.com>

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[Prabhaharan Rajamanickam]

Hi Chris,

Can you please let me know where I can find serial manager API's? I want to write an app which communicates through serial port.

Any web link will be helpful.

thanks and regards,

Prabha.

[Christopher Tate]

There is no public serial API.  The commit that Matt Reiner mentioned is not guaranteed to be present or function as desired on any Android device.

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christopher tate

android framework engineer