I’ve solved this as best as I can with the small amount of time I assigned to this task. But unfortunately I do not think the windows implementation of avahi/msdns/bonjour supports aliases (correct me if I am wrong with examples of how to support this). What i did was start with the example python script … Read more
I’m new as well otherwise I would have just left a comment on smountcastle’s answer which is mostly correct. I have just been dealing with the exact same issue on a Droid running Android 2.1. I found that I needed to set the MulticastLock to reference-counted otherwise it seemed to be released automatically. AndroidManifest.xml: <uses-permission … Read more
I’m also curious to find the best cross-platform DNS-SD (Zeroconf, Bonjour, DNS self discovery) library exists out there. It does sound like Apple’s DNS-SD dnssd.jar is the “official” Java library that requires native library support on Windows, Linux, etc, but works out of the box on Mac OSX. There are other pure Java DNS-SD implementations, … Read more
This question has been asked many times on this site and the definitive answer is: NO, you can’t connect an Android phone to an iPhone over Bluetooth, and YES Apple has restrictions that prevent this. Some possible alternatives: Bonjour over WiFi, as you mentioned. However, I couldn’t find a comprehensive tutorial for it. Some internet … Read more
According to this interesting site : http://code.google.com/p/btstack/wiki/iPhoneBluetooth Apple are using a special chip besides their Bluetooth RF chip which denies any connection for a device without that chip – this means its a lock on the hardware level.