Appendix     B

Using libusb in Android

What you will learn:

  • Overview of libusbhost
  • USB-Serial Driver Using libusb
  • Building and Installing the Package
  • Running the USB-Serial Application

Developers who have worked for USB development requirements or have conducted feasibility studies should definitely have encountered the ubiquitous USB software library or the driver called libusb. Be it Windows, Linux, or Mac, a libusb driver is available on all of these leading operating systems and provides a generic interface in order to access and manage USB devices that are connected to the system. On Linux, libusb is referred to as the user space driver, which accesses the USB devices through the device files exported by the usb-core driver in the Linux ...

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