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"SerialPort Android" is a library which goals is to improve and add ease of access to serial devices and USB<>RS232 devices under Android OS.
It's goal is to provide a huge unification of several serial chip providers under a single, easy to use class/object.

Our library offer event management over serial port and a truc multithreaded, threadsafe environment. The goal is for example running a service communicating with a serial device in an easy "one dev row" way.

We plan into having no need to root Android's devices and to be able to target as much as SDK versions as possible.
Currently we support from API 13 to API 17 (tests are under in progress with API 18).
Meaning we support from Android 3.2 to Android 4.2.2.

#todo (by priority and possibility)#
* Add support to prolific devices.
* Improve unification of serial device.
* Add automatic class instantiation; including finding the serials ports and returning back the final usable object.
* Add support to several others devices/manufacturers.

#Changelog#
v1.2: Automatic instantiation of the class and driver selection.
v1.1: Prolific driver and detection added.
v0.6: GPL licensing for GitHub and initial commit.
v0.5: full support for FTDI devices without root.
v0.4: stability and performance improvement.
v0.3: RXTX inspiration: goal is to offer same developper experience on android than on Standard JAVA or .Net Framework one.
v0.2: events handling
v0.1: initial Library design for generic Serial devices.

Everything is under copyright 2013 by Meï-Garino Jérémy unless specific file stated.