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Wi-Fi Direct is an extension to Wi-Fi, created by the Wi-Fi Alliance, that allows for Bluetooth style point-to-point networking as well as the more well known method of networking with access points that Wi-Fi traditionally uses. It is designed to make the process of connecting small intelligent devices like phones and cameras and even home appliances easier and faster. To make it easier to exchange information and files between devices as needed.

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How to find file name of a file which is transferred via wifi direct mode in android?

Hi My ultimate aim is to transfer files using wifi direct api in android between two devices. Once device act as a client another one act as a server as in the wifi direct sdk demo. For this, Creating a socket from the client side by using server…
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Android Wifi Direct Service Discovery

I'm trying to implement a simple android application that broadcasts a WifiP2p bonjour service on one device and have a second device discover and connect to it. I've pretty much followed the tutorial here. I have a valid Channel object, a…
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Get peer device's IP address in wifi-direct p2p connection

My app needs to know the peer device’s IP address when my device is a group owner (GO) in a wifi-direct P2P connection (usually GO acts as DHCP server and peer station receives the IP from the server). I figured out that the DHCP client list is…
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Wi-Fi Direct and "normal" Wi-Fi - Different MAC?

I'm currently trying to connect two phones which know each other's MAC address via Wi-Fi Direct, and stumbled upon the following problem: The MAC address, which I receive from WifiManager wifiMan = (WifiManager) this …
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Wi-Fi Direct UWP timeouts (Exception from HRESULT: 0x800705B4)

I'm starting a Wi-Fi Direct access point service using the UWP APIs. It starts OK. I'm using WiFiDirectConnectionListener to monitor for devices that get connected to the access point using the ConnectionRequested event. var connectionRequest =…
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Android - Wifi Direct / p2p not able to find peers on Android 8

I started creating an Android app wifi Wifi direct functionality. I do a peer discover and I like to see the peers in a listview. I now have a app which tries to discover peers and shows the peers in a list. But I'm facing the problem that this…
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How many devices can i connect with Wi-Fi P2P?

I need to connect 20+ android devices in a client-server network. Each client Android device will be communicating with the server Android device and vice versa. The client devices do not need to communicate with each other. The server device would…
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Android wifi p2p peers visibility

I'm trying to connect 2 devices with wifi direct, let's say device A and device B with android > 4.1. If I'm on device A and I press the button to search for other devices it doesn't act always the same way. For example if I press the search button…
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WiFi Direct in Windows 10 says "UnsupportedHardware" althought it should be supported

I'll try to keep it short. I've been running in Windows 10 (10130) Microsoft's WiFi Direct Services example available on GitHub , the C# one in Visual Studio 2015 RC. Now, in their Build conference they said you can run in CMD a command to know if…
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using UDP to broadcast on Wifi Direct

i'm new to wifi direct and i want to be able to broadcast a message, because i have a timeline and when i click the Post button i want all the connected devices have that message displayed on their timeline. I am able to send data peer to peer.I…
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Scan for MFI products over Wi Fi

In iOS 8, Apple allows us to connect to a device via Wifi direct and share wifi network credentials with it. We can do it in wifi settings page but also in an app. I'm trying to launch a scan to find wifi MFI devices. I can see those in the wifi…
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Change device name in wifidirect on android

When I discover peers to connect to, i can fetch the list in this method: @Override public void onPeersAvailable(WifiP2pDeviceList peers) { List peersList = new…
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WifiP2pDevice status stays on INVITED after Wifi Direct Invitation

I am programming a Wifi Direct game, but have run into a problem with the WifiP2pDevice Status when one user declines the invitation to join the connection. Phone A initiates connection to Phone B Phone B status becomes INVITED (as displayed on…
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Android Wi-Fi Direct Network

I am developing an application on Android where I am searching for all the peers in the range and afterwards connect with all of them, The device who initiated the the discovery become the group owner and all others become client, I have done all…
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How can I handle multiple clients connected to a server using sockets?

I have an Android app that needs to let multiple devices connect. One device should act as the group owner and issue instructions to all of the clients to do specific things. I suppose it's comparable to a wireless handheld game where one player is…
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