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Is basic4android can communicate with HID USB Device?
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There is no USB host access in the android APIs up to and including 3.0 so you cannot talk to an HID device.
Android 3.1 does have USB host and slave access APIs but only a few tablets are available with this at the moment. When (if? - see rant below!) I get 3.1 on my Motorola Xoom I will look at this, although I think Basic4android may need an update to compile with SDKs later than 2.2.
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I do have a Motorola Xoom but those of us not in the US are being treated as very much second class citizens by Google and Motorola. We were led to believe that the Xoom was a Google Experience Device and would be plain Honeycomb with updates direct from Google. For non-US devices it now transpires that this is not the case so while the US has 3.1 we only have 3.0.1 and are having to wait for Motorola to tamper with 3.1 before releasing it. What is worse is that the Asus Transformer is available here with 3.1 already available. This is an active issue on the Motorola non-US forums and a lot of Xoom owners here are really pissed off and are returning their device if they can. Motorola already had a bad reputation for support over here and has further screwed itself over this issue!
</rant>
Android 3.1 does have USB host and slave access APIs but only a few tablets are available with this at the moment. When (if? - see rant below!) I get 3.1 on my Motorola Xoom I will look at this, although I think Basic4android may need an update to compile with SDKs later than 2.2.
<rant>
I do have a Motorola Xoom but those of us not in the US are being treated as very much second class citizens by Google and Motorola. We were led to believe that the Xoom was a Google Experience Device and would be plain Honeycomb with updates direct from Google. For non-US devices it now transpires that this is not the case so while the US has 3.1 we only have 3.0.1 and are having to wait for Motorola to tamper with 3.1 before releasing it. What is worse is that the Asus Transformer is available here with 3.1 already available. This is an active issue on the Motorola non-US forums and a lot of Xoom owners here are really pissed off and are returning their device if they can. Motorola already had a bad reputation for support over here and has further screwed itself over this issue!
</rant>
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