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Low-Level Communications

Exploring Palm OS®

This book covers the portions of Palm OS® that make it possible to develop applications that make use of telecommunication technologies such as networking, infrared, Bluetooth, and serial connectivity.

The primary focus of this book is the lower-level aspects of communication. If your application needs to perform higher-level functions, such as exchanging typed data objects or exchanging standard vObjects, you should instead refer to the book Exploring Palm OS: High-Level Communications.

Intended Audience ^TOP^

You should read this book if you want to write Palm OS applications that use networking, Bluetooth, IrDA, or serial communications to transmit and receive data between a Palm OS device and either another Palm OS device or a peripheral device.

The APIs described in this book are only needed if your application will perform communications of this nature. You should read Exploring Palm OS: Programming Basics before this book, in order to gain the necessary background in Palm OS programming. Read this book when you find that you need to enable your application with communications functionality.

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