pdk/docs/porting/wifi.jd

page.title=Wi-Fi
pdk.version=1.0
doc.type=porting
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<h2>In this document</h2>
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<li><a href="#androidWifiBuildingDriver">Building a Wi-Fi Library</a></li>
<li><a href="#androidWifiInterface">Interface</a></li>
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<p>Android uses wpa_supplicant as the platform interface to the Wi-Fi device. Your Wi-Fi driver must be compatible with the standard wpa_supplicant in addition to extensions added to the supplicant (specifically, the "DRIVER" commands described in <code>wifi.h/wifi_command()</code>).</p>


<a name="androidWifiBuildingDriver"></a><h3>Building a Wi-Fi Library</h3>

<p>To create a Wi-Fi driver for Android:</p>
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<li>create a shared library that implements the interface defined in <code>include/hardware/wifi.h</code>, which also defines the Wi-Fi supplicant.</li>
<li>Follow the instructions posted at <a href="http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/">http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/</a>.</li>
<li>Place your driver in <code>libs/hardware/wifi/</code></li>
<li>Test your driver using the command line <code>wpa_cli</code> utilities.</li>
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<p>You can find the default implementation in <code>libs/hardware/wifi/wifi.c</code>. If you need to make changes, create a new source file similar to <code>wifi.c</code>, for example, <code>wifi_mywifi.c</code>. </p>

<p>Update the default <code>Android.mk</code> file (<code>libs/hardware/wifi/Android.mk</code>) as shown below.</p>
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LOCAL_SHARED_LIBRARIES += libnetutils

ifeq ($(TARGET_PRODUCT),acme)
LOCAL_SRC_FILES += wifi/wifi_mywifi.c
else
LOCAL_SRC_FILES += wifi/wifi.c
endif
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<a name="androidWifiInterface"></a><h3>Interface</h3>



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