Can Android do peer-to-peer ad-hoc networking?

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Doughy picture Doughy · Dec 19, 2009 · Viewed 139k times · Source

Is it possible to set up Android in ad-hoc peer-to-peer wifi mode? For example, I would like to have one phone broadcast a message, and have all peers in the network receive the broadcast, without having a server. I would like to use wifi since bluetooth range is more limited.

Answer

Crowe T. Robot picture Crowe T. Robot · Dec 19, 2009

Here's a bug report on the feature you're requesting.

It's status is "reviewed" but I don't believe it's been implemented yet.

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=82

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