Selecting +a Remote Device

Thought should be given to the way in which a remote device will be selected +for connection before moving on to begin the actual connection. This document +discusses some of the issues that should be considered.

Methods for selecting a remote device

An application +can determine the remote device to which it should talk in several ways, it +may be:

hard-wired,
a stored preference (application stores a previously selected device +profile to reuse),
selected by the user, or
determined programmatically.

Each of these may be appropriate in different situations. In the +first couple of cases, the address of the remote device is simply retrieved +from storage. Functionality for the third case is provided by theBluetooth +UI .

The final case, the program itself determining the remote +device, could be adopted for the following reasons:

to provide a customised device selection UI to the user
to select a device based on some other criteria, for example, "use +the least busy LAN access point"

The next page,Inquiring + About Remote Devices , discusses in detail how to go about this.

Where Next?

This tutorial set takes you through +all the steps involved in setting up and communicating over a Bluetooth connection.

Selecting a Remote +Device - This document
Inquiring +About Remote Devices
Inquiring +About Services on a Remote Device
Connecting +and Transferring Data to a Remote Device
Using +security on outgoing sockets

Where Next?

This tutorial set takes you through +all the steps involved in setting up and communicating over a Bluetooth connection.

Selecting a Remote +Device - This document
Inquiring +About Remote Devices
Inquiring +About Services on a Remote Device
Connecting +and Transferring Data to a Remote Device
Using +security on outgoing sockets