Using App Tethering
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The RTL provides app tethering components, giving your applications the ability to interact with other applications running either on the same machine or on a remote machine.
Using app tethering, your applications can easily:
- Discover other applications that are using app tethering, running either on the same device as your application or on other connected devices.
- Run actions remotely. An application can publish actions using app tethering. Then other applications can remotely invoke any of these actions on the former application.
- Share data between applications. App tethering allows sharing of standard data types and streams.
The app tethering feature does not depend on a specific transport or protocol, and new transports and protocols can be implemented using the app tethering API. The RTL provides built-in support for IP and Classic Bluetooth connections. IP support includes connecting applications running on the same device.
Platform Support
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Topics
- Adding App Tethering to Your Application
- Connecting to Remote Applications
- Sharing and Running Actions on Remote Applications
- Sharing Data with Remote Applications
See Also
- BDShoppingList sample
- DesktopCast sample
- MediaPlayer sample
- PhotoWall sample