[Commotion-dev] ad-hoc in android

[Hans of Guardian]

Another thing to add that we have working in MeshTether is the WifiConfig in Android space so that Android thinks it has a network connection, instead of telling Android that wifi is disabled.

As an aside, how would you run OLSR or BATMAN without root?

.hc

On Oct 12, 2012, at 10:15 PM, Jeremy Lakeman wrote:

> Political structure;
> A wiki, a git repo (+gerrit?), a mailing list... github can handle
> most of that. I figure most projects that want to use it would
> contribute to its development. Other than that I don't really care.
> 
> Main activity with;
> - handset type detection
> - automated check for existing test results on wiki
> - serval-ish auto detection for finding and loading wifi modules
> - testing process
> - upload results to wiki
> 
> List of adhoc profile's & settings editing
> 3rd party apps should be able to pre-load a default config, but let
> the user choose which profile they want to use with that application.
> 
> Android service that you can call from 3rd party apps for various actions;
> - Add profile [SSID, BSSID, IP, channel, ...]
> - Start profile
> - Start scan, [if possible]
> 
> Sticky broadcast with current wifi network details [as above, +interface name]
> 
> And importantly, an automated testing process we can each run with the
> various physical handsets we have available as part of accepting code
> changes.
> 
> And if we can separate that out, Serval wouldn't need root for
> anything since we relay payloads from user-space and don't touch the
> routing table.
> 
> On Sat, Oct 13, 2012 at 2:12 AM, Hans of Guardian
> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>> 
>> This is a good idea, have any ideas for how to structure it?
>> 
>> .hc
>> 
>> On Oct 11, 2012, at 8:21 PM, Jeremy Lakeman wrote:
>> 
>>> Hopefully this actually gets in and starts to be supported. But even
>>> then it takes a long time for new android versions to trickle down to
>>> actual devices.
>>> 
>>> I have wondered if we should team up with other projects that want
>>> adhoc on android to build a single unified API we can use to get adhoc
>>> working on each device. With a web site for documenting which
>>> platforms are supported or broken and any other crazy steps required
>>> like replacing your kernel.
>>> 
>>> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:18 AM, Hans-Christoph Steiner
>>> <hans at guardianproject.info> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> There is now a patch submitted via the official android gerrit to add
>>>> ad-hoc support to Android:
>>>> 
>>>> https://android-review.googlesource.com/#/c/43070/
>>>> 
>>>> .hc
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