Interesting idea! With old school Bluetooth you can't make an Android device discoverable for more than 2 minutes, and it requires user confirmation each time. But maybe the situation's different with Bluetooth LE? I haven't looked at the API yet.
Cheers, Michael Nathan of Guardian <[email protected]> wrote: >A random idea... Bluetooth device names can be up to 240 characters >apparently. What if we just used that as a messaging transport? >Essentially just staying in constant discovery mode. > > >On Tue, Sep 30, 2014, at 10:50 AM, Michael Rogers wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> There was a BlackHat talk about reverse-engineering Apple's multipeerd >> protocols - perhaps that's been used to build an interoperable >> implementation on Android? >> >> https://nabla-c0d3.github.io/blog/2014/08/09/my-black-hat-presentation-about-multipeer-connectivity/ >> >> https://nabla-c0d3.github.io/blog/2014/08/20/multipeer-connectivity-follow-up/ >> >> Cheers, >> Michael >> >> On 29/09/14 23:09, Josh Steiner wrote: >> > Anyone have any more info about this? >> > >> > It appears FireChat have moved away from Apple's closed Multipeer >> > stuff since their messages now work across iOS and Android >> > devices. Rumor is they built their own cross platform protocol on >> > top of bluetooth and wifi, but not much in the way of details yet: >> > >> > https://opengarden.com/sdk >> > >> > An open SDK for this, now that would be a great Guardian Project >> > library. >> > >> > -Josh _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev >> > mailing list >> > >> > Post: [email protected] List info: >> > https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev >> > >> > To Unsubscribe Send email to: >> > [email protected] Or visit: >> > https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/michael%40briarproject.org >> > >> > You are subscribed as: [email protected] >> > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJUKsMgAAoJEBEET9GfxSfMczkH+wRc0NsgwBh6MC3l8M8ODZQG >> 8/TOZGxtrvC2+Y9LvaXGBJHwZBEKNxcC5XOuZd6lijnQQKExJqomef+01SxExFwq >> Xh3mtB8op656Xriqs/7x6wjSjSRbuFUsTEUzwOpKr/Ninj+6/KgitdzSIKoZLmk5 >> Lb9WQNH3fMrDUKj0rhvdVOoWIU17Q6bjozNWY/rr3a9WpQ0Gfg82Ty4tCdtlSiMK >> 3ErDzM0m2abvQ7eZo0d9dulkG/RPzvTt8hFtDCO5D/5WRM7TlnasG3kWC1ckuapa >> mu95YEdXtsZ3gsEG4DsJMx/K9d+EUS3+bzbiyRblxr7hGPJKMES7f63o86tySMg= >> =FJJH >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> _______________________________________________ >> Guardian-dev mailing list >> >> Post: [email protected] >> List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev >> >> To Unsubscribe >> Send email to: [email protected] >> Or visit: >> >> https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/nathan%40guardianproject.info >> >> You are subscribed as: [email protected] > > >-- > Nathan of Guardian > [email protected] >_______________________________________________ >Guardian-dev mailing list > >Post: [email protected] >List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev > >To Unsubscribe > Send email to: [email protected] > Or visit: > https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/michael%40briarproject.org > >You are subscribed as: [email protected] _______________________________________________ Guardian-dev mailing list Post: [email protected] List info: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/listinfo/guardian-dev To Unsubscribe Send email to: [email protected] Or visit: https://lists.mayfirst.org/mailman/options/guardian-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com You are subscribed as: [email protected]
