Heielko: I see now, so the service requires that both parties have Snap+GTalk in advance to establishing a connection... but here is another problem. It is EXTREMELY unsafe to leave your BT in visible mode - the phone immediately becomes a target of bluehacking if not worse. Did you figure out how to make the phone BT-invisible to anyone except Snap users?
YA On Apr 13, 12:02 am, Hielko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Snap only exchanges information with contacts that not only have a > telephone number, but also a GTalk account. It uses GTalk to > communicate with those accounts and our program broadcasts profile > updates and location updates to those contacts. It does not call them > or sms them, everthing is handled in the background using GTalk (or > Bluetooth in the case of discovering new/matching Contacts). > > So, how it works: > > Step 1: > > Using Bluetooth you see who is in the same neighborhood. You not only > see their (nick)name, but also their interests (information that is > coming from Facebook). > > Step 2: > > If you want, you can invite this person to your contact list (this is > done using GTalk). > > Note: instead of discovering this contact using bluetooth, you can > also simply enter his GTalk email address, and press invite. > > Step 3: > > If he accepts our program uses GTalk to exchange your profile. Your > profile contains your telephone number(s), email address, the link to > your facebook account, a picture and more. The basic information such > as the telephone numbers are stored in the default android phone book > memory, but the additional information is stored in our own database. > > Now if you change your profile, all your Snap! contacts (that all have > GTalk) will receive the new information. > > You can also check out our 'Larger and Longer' screencast, hopefully > it will show you exactly what Snap! is and what it can > dohttp://www.snap-project.net/wikka.php?wakka=LargerLongerScreencast > > On Apr 12, 9:13 pm, YA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hielko: > > > I read the PDF and cannot understand how the app works. Suppose I have > > 20 phone numbers with names in my phone book. Suppose I also have a FB > > profile. What does Snap do to my phone number contacts? Does it call > > them, sms them or what? > > > YA > > > On Apr 12, 10:04 pm, Hielko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'm not sure what you mean with a 'pure phone app'. > > > > We are using the contacts in the phone book memory. All contacts that > > > are visible inside Snap! are also available in the default contacts > > > application, but the aditional information such as the location, > > > facebook profile are stored in our own content provider. > > > > On Apr 12, 5:58 pm, YA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hmm... so this is not really a pure phone app. Are you using GTalk/FB > > > > contacts or are you using the real phone contacts - the ones in the > > > > phone book memory of the phone? > > > > > YA > > > > > On Apr 12, 6:51 pm, Hielko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > It will run without GTalk account or Facebook account, but receiving > > > > > new contacts or keeping existing contacts up to date is done using > > > > > GTalk (it's ok if you are offline and the other person changes his > > > > > info, it will sync as soon you will go online). > > > > > > GTalk is certainly a very important corner stone of our app. > > > > > > Snap! does not need other webservices, but obviously to get your > > > > > information from Facebook or other social network sites it will have > > > > > to connect to those at least one time. > > > > > > On Apr 12, 4:33 pm, YA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > Will it work without GTalk account or any other web service account? > > > > > > > YA > > > > > > > On Apr 12, 12:44 pm, writser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Hey all, > > > > > > > > Snap! ties your telephone to social networking sites. It will > > > > > > > notify > > > > > > > you whenever people with the same interests as you are in your > > > > > > > neighborhood. You can then exchange contact information with these > > > > > > > people automatically and wirelessly. You can use snap instead of > > > > > > > your > > > > > > > standard contact list - it uses a p2p network to keep your contact > > > > > > > list up to date at all times. > > > > > > > > Our website:http://www.snap-project.net. Check out the screencast > > > > > > > on > > > > > > > the main page if you are interested. > > > > > > > > Any comments are appreciated. Both the site and the program are > > > > > > > still > > > > > > > work in progress :) > > > > > > > > regards, Writser- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > > Hie- Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Challenge" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-challenge?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
