I'm happy to announce my project Fluid Nexus, an application that is primarily designed to enable activists and relief workers to send messages and data amongst themselves independent of a centralized cellular network. The idea is to provide a means of communication between people when the centralized network has been shut down, either by the government during a time of unrest, or by nature due to a massive disaster. It uses Bluetooth to create short-term, short-range network connections between people, thus using the phones as part of a "sneaker-net".
This was a particularly difficult project to write for the ADC given that Bluetooth is not supported in the emulator :-) However, I wrote a basic Bluetooth simulator that fires off simulated events (at least those that are relevant for my application). As well, I wrote a bridge that sits between the emulator and the host's Bluetooth adapter; the bridge transfers data between the two via TCP sockets, as others have done here for cameras. I've released the source code under GPLv3; it's really poorly documented right now, but that will hopefully change soon. Website: http://fluidnexus.net Project video: http://vimeo.com/899706 Application: http://fluidnexus.net/media/code/FluidNexusAndroid.apk Source code (licensed under the GPLv3): http://fluidnexus.net/media/code/FluidNexusAndroid-0.01.tar.gz Subversion repository: https://svn.zeitkunst.org/viewvc/FluidNexusAndroid I'm excited to hear what people think! Good luck to everyone in the challenge, and especially those who, like me, just submitted their application :-) nick --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
