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Using Android to Detect Signals


I'm working on an Android application where I need to use the antenna of Android phones to detect some kind of signal. Is there a way to detect any kind of wireless signal using Android's antenna and identify it? Or must the signal be some sort of pre-defined one like Wi-fi?

Thanks!


Solution

  • You cannot receive arbitrary signals of arbitrary frequencies from the stock Android SDK. You could conceivably build an Android-powered software-defined radio, but that would require modifications to the firmware and probably the hardware.