WiFi-Direct communication between Mac/Windows and Android

Elias Atahi picture Elias Atahi · Jul 30, 2012 · Viewed 30.5k times · Source

Is it possible to let an Android (>4.0) device establish a WiFi-Direct connection with a Mac OS or Windows device?

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slayton picture slayton · Jul 30, 2012

According to the Wifi-Direct Docs the protocol allows:

Android 4.0 (API level 14) or later devices with the appropriate hardware to connect directly to each other via Wi-Fi

It doesn't look like Google provides this functionality via the API. Although WiFi-Direct isn't a proprietary protocol and could be implemented for any platform. There are a few posts around the web of people trying to get Wifi-Direct to work under windows: