Asynchronous socket I/O on Android

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Is there a decent mechanism for doing asynchronous I/O using sockets on Android?

I'm aware of the existence of nio channels, but they don't work for me because I need to be able to use MulticastSockets and BluetoothSockets, neither of which support channels.

I'm aware the answer is probably that there isn't one, but as this is a fairly big piece of work I thought I'd ask first to be sure. And if anyone knows of a decent third-party library I might be able to use...

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:18

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Other than nio I don't know any built-in option for this problem however there is an interesting answered question on this already on SO.

Take a look at it maybe the third party libraries will help you. Asynchronous IO in Java?

I can't tell how well those libraries work on Android you might also have to get them Android-ready in order to work correctly.

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answered Oct 22 '10 at 16:56

Octavian Helm

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Thanks --- unfortunately none of those really did what I wanted so I'm rolling my own. What use is a wheel if you can't reinvent it? Sigh. I'll see if I can persuade my boss to let me release the library as open source once I'm done. – David Given Oct 25 '10 at 11:33
You'd probably better take those away; it looks like it's not going to be open sourced. Sorry... – David Given Oct 06 '11 at 21:21

score 0 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:27

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I'm using this: https://stackoverflow.com/a/9832633/516188

but keep in mind my comment to that solution, under the solution itself.

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answered Nov 08 '12 at 12:10

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Asynchronous socket I/O on Android

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