Raw Sockets on Android

Question

I want to create an application that runs on Android and uses Raw Sockets. I see there isn\'t any raw socket support in the java.net.* or the android.net.* libraries. Are

Answer 1

Why not use Android interprocess comunication, like :

AIDL, Intent, Broadcast etc

See http://developer.android.com/guide/topics/fundamentals/services.html for example. They use internally raw sockets