TCP in a native extension

I have tried to contact a developer named Wouter Verweirder regarding my work based on his native extension, but have been unable to reach him.  His UDPSocket native extension is found here:

https://github.com/wouterverweirder/AIR-Mobile-UDP-Extension

I hope that someone here can help me regarding this inquiry:

I have reasons for writing a native extension like his, but for TCP communication rather than UDP.

I am very familiar with both UDP and TCP networking at the packet level, as well as at the source code level in several languages.  I have replaced his UDP components with their TCP counterparts as appropriate, but I get no communication at all.

To start from square one, I first made sure I was able to build his extension from the source code, and then use the resulting ANE with my Android app for UDP communication as he originally intended.

Then, I simply added the following as a test at the end of his UDPSocketAdapter constructor (in red):

     public UDPSocketAdapter(UDPSocketContext context) {

          this.context = context;

          this.hasSentClose = false;

          try {

               channel = DatagramChannel.open();

               channel.configureBlocking(true);

               socket = channel.socket();

          } catch (SocketException e) {

          } catch (IOException e) {

          }

          theReceiveQueue = new LinkedBlockingQueue<DatagramPacket>();

          try {

               Socket tsocket = new Socket("192.168.2.23", 8137);

               OutputStream outStream = tsocket.getOutputStream();

               byte[] data = {'h','e','l','l','o',' ','w','o','r','l','d'};

               outStream.write(data);

               outStream.flush();

               outStream.close();

               tsocket.close();

          } catch (IOException e1) {

               Log.put("i/o exception:\r\n" + Log.stack2string(e1) + "\r\n");

          }

     }

(Of course, I also imported the Socket and OutputStream classes.)  After I rebuild the ANE and then rebuild and run my app, not only do I not see my test TCP traffic in my sniffer, but all of his UDP functionality which was previously working, is now broken and I have zero UDP communication!

The line of code in my catch block sends nothing to my log file (via my Log class), so I know my test code is not generating an exception.  (In fact, my test code works fine in another fully native Android app.)

Have I just missed something fundamental?  I appreciate any suggestion anyone might have.

Thank you.