I'm working on my first Android app. The application shall scan for devices on the network using a proprietary protocol based on UDP broadcast. The protocol can send a discover message and receive responses from all available devices. Later on it can send a configuration command to a selected device to set network settings such as IP address etc. I have built an activity to display a list of found modules and I use AsyncTaskLoader to load devices to the list and that works fine.
My problem now is how I shall implement the UDP protocol and access it from the AsyncTaskLoader.
Shall I implement the UDP protocol as a service with one transmit and one receive thread? How do I interact with this thread from the AsyncTaskLoader in this case?
Any other ideas how I should design this?
Thanks, Jonas.
