[BRLTTY] Would BRLTTY be of use on Android?
Nicolas Pitre
nico at fluxnic.net
Thu Nov 17 14:21:53 EST 2011
On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Nolan Darilek wrote:
> My intention is to ship a low-level Braille API and associated service that
> communicates between higher-level apps and Braille displays. I think that if
> we can cross-compile BRLTTY for Android, then ship the binary as a resource
> within the service, then the Android app can run a BRLTTY instance and handle
> communication. My understanding is that BRLAPI communicates with a running
> BRLTTY daemon. It might be easier if this daemon could communicate over
> STDIN/STDOUT rather than a port on localhost.
Why so? At least the socket approach allows better isolation of the
braille communication and the applications.
Nicolas
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