William Hunter Active Member Licensed User Longtime User Oct 2, 2014 #1 Is there any way to turn Wifi Direct On/Off Programmatically? Best regards
Erel B4X founder Staff member Licensed User Longtime User Oct 2, 2014 #2 If wifi is on then wifi direct is also available. Upvote 0
William Hunter Active Member Licensed User Longtime User Oct 3, 2014 #3 Erel said: If wifi is on then wifi direct is also available. Click to expand... This may be the case with more current versions of Android, but not all. I have two Samsung devices. One runs Android v-4.1.2, while the other v-4.0.4. Version 4.1.2 handles WIFI Direct as you say. But version 4.0.4 requires that a WIFI Direct slider, in wifi settings, be manually set to on. When this is done WIFI Client/Hotspot is then turned off. I have found using WIFI Direct between these two devices to be quite flaky. Sometimes connections and file transfers are made with ease. At other times it’s impossible to make a connection at all. There is another problem I have found with v-4.0.4, in that it is impossible to use USB Debugging. The USB connection is made, but B4A cannot connect for debugging as no connected device is detected. I think I will have to put this project on the back burner, until I replace the v-4.0.4 device with something newer. Best regards Upvote 0
Erel said: If wifi is on then wifi direct is also available. Click to expand... This may be the case with more current versions of Android, but not all. I have two Samsung devices. One runs Android v-4.1.2, while the other v-4.0.4. Version 4.1.2 handles WIFI Direct as you say. But version 4.0.4 requires that a WIFI Direct slider, in wifi settings, be manually set to on. When this is done WIFI Client/Hotspot is then turned off. I have found using WIFI Direct between these two devices to be quite flaky. Sometimes connections and file transfers are made with ease. At other times it’s impossible to make a connection at all. There is another problem I have found with v-4.0.4, in that it is impossible to use USB Debugging. The USB connection is made, but B4A cannot connect for debugging as no connected device is detected. I think I will have to put this project on the back burner, until I replace the v-4.0.4 device with something newer. Best regards
Erel B4X founder Staff member Licensed User Longtime User Oct 6, 2014 #4 There is no official API to turn on wifi direct. Upvote 0
B bioident Member Licensed User Longtime User Sep 5, 2015 #5 Maybe something change ? Can we turn on Wifi direct from software? Upvote 0
DonManfred Expert Licensed User Longtime User Sep 5, 2015 #6 bioident said: Maybe something change ? Click to expand... No Upvote 0
