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Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by rektide on Monday July 31, 2017 @02:34PM (#14894713)
It's presumably built around WiFi Aware, which is cross platform, but the WiFi "Alliance" (owners) won't tell you what it is or how it works or how you can make use of it.

So this is what we get.

100% agreed though. IMO is poison and a major regression from where things stood- barely working wifi p2p- since it doesn't make any interoperability affordances/offerings.

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Re:Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to pe... by tjohns on Monday July 31, 2017 @11:16PM (#14897654)
WiFi Aware is an OS-level feature that's being added in the upcoming Android O release. It also requires new hardware support, which means most phones don't support it yet.

Nearby isn't using WiFi Aware. We want it to work on all existing Android devices.

Internally, it's using a mix of WiFi, WiFi Direct, Bluetooth LE & Classic Bluetooth.

Getting proximity-based P2P messaging to work correctly across all devices is complicated. With Nearby Connections, we're trying to provide an abstraction layer that makes it easy.

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