Getting Java Binding for Dbus to Run on Android

Question

Has anyone succeeded in running the Java bindings for dbus on Android? All indications point at dbus already running as a process within the Android OS, but there is no official access point for them through the Java interface. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

You shouldn't do this unless you're talking about your own bus talking to things you control. There's no guarantee that dbus will be available. According to the android mailing list, it's just an implementation detail that dbus is around at all, it's not guaranteed to be there, and might not be there in the future.

Answer 2

You can try using the dbus-java from the freedesktop project. I don't know if it works on android tough.

• Moki: Thanks for the suggestion! I'd given that a try, but it requires a JNI implementation of Unix sockets to run. That requires pushing a C library onto Android, which I am not quite sure how to do. I've seen that pushing simple programs is possible, but I haven't seen a full library pushed. Or perhaps I'm just not runinng the make properly.
• David Rabinowitz: You can use TCP instead of unix-sockets, and then you have pure Java library
• James Moore: you'd need to modify the dbus library. There's nothing like a configuration option to build without unix sockets.
• Chris Stratton: Android has always supported Unix domain sockets (at least to some degree) in Java via the LocalSocket class.