The Abstraction Layer

Once the prototype works and could establish a great communication between the Xoom and the FT232 IC, I decided to separate the project in order to let anyone creates a VCP Driver adding just a few methods.
The Abstraction Layer is present in the USB VCP Library for Android. It consists of 5 classes as you can see in the following picture:

VCPDriver

It is the main class. It represents the driver which lets the user connect and disconnect from the device. It also handles the low level connection and disconnection from the USB Device, and provides 5 abstract methods.

The user should call “connect” with a valid RS232 Configuration and a (may be null) object that implements the Async. Receveiver Interface. The “disconnect” method should be used in order to de-initialize variables but must call VCPDriver.closeDevice() in order to release all the USB stack.

 
“transfer” is a generic method that lets the user do synchronised transactions. The user can call this method in order to send and/or receive a package from the device.
“initialize” should be called from “connect” and will perform several controlTransfer commands in order to setup the device (including the RS232 configuration).

Finally, the AsyncReceiver is an interface with a very simple method. If your class implements this interface, you will receive async information from the driver.
As the VCPDriver has some abstract methods, all the class is abstract. So for every IC manufacturer, you should create a specialised Driver class, as I have created the FT232Driver class.