Hi cmsv

On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 04:28:17PM -0400, cmsv wrote:

I have a growing number of users on my mesh that use android and i am now looking at supporting it more and better. As i do some re-search i see some articles like these:

http://www.geek.com/mobile/batman-wants-to-break-android-free-from-wifi-1539...

https://blog.itu.dk/SPVC-E2010/files/2011/08/13adhocandroid.pdf

https://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/android-phones-are-connecting-wi...

http://allaboutandroidphone.blogspot.ca/2013/02/project-batman-use-of-ad-hoc...

My questions are: Are here any ideas to have batman-adv working with android ?

we support batman-adv in the linux kernel. As far as I know you can "simply" compile the batman-adv module for the Android kernel and it should work. I remember of somebody which did it.

However we do not directly work on that.

Is anyone using android in this stype of scenario ?

But why do you want to use batman-adv on the Android devices themselves? this kind of applications are not really energy-friendly and a normal user would not probably like to drain his battery for no reason (imagine an Android phone working as router for traffic going to other nodes..).

What I usually do is to use whatever smartphone as a normal non-mesh client, meaning that I simply connect the phone to a node acting as AP. This is the common scenario which is also explained in the wiki.

Cheers,