communication protocols used by Android

[Jeff Walker]

Hi Mark,
I am interested in learning about how Android will communicate with other devices.
Being Java based, does it use its own protocol lying on top of http/s, or perhaps can it use web services (SOAP), or perhaps something else?

Also, does your book show any examples of Android to Android (A2A) comms?
(Did I just coin a new acronym ??)
dream_ryder

[Raihan Masud]

You can use TCP Socket or use bluetooth (P2P)

-Raihan
Oregon,USA

[Mark L. Murphy]

I am interested in learning about how Android will communicate with other devices.

Me too!

Being Java based, does it use its own protocol lying on top of http/s, or perhaps can it use web services (SOAP), or perhaps something else?

Java sockets (TCP) are available to you, and you can do pretty much whatever you want with them. There are two HTTP APIs available (URLConnection and Apache's HttpClient). However, there is no SOAP client built in.