Re: [SailfishDevel] Simple device to device communications

2015-05-31 Thread Jani Mikkonen
Hiya. If the need is only to communicate with devices near by (eg. same network) using something like ZeroConf/Bonjour[1] for client discovery and then just implement own app specific message transfer (could be as easy as json over http) between applications should be somewhat easy undertaking. D

Re: [SailfishDevel] Simple device to device communications

2015-05-15 Thread Jani Nuutinen
This would strictly be through wireless communications (3G/4G, WLAN) so I guess were' looking into usage of different networks and thus the need of using a server to pass the messages. So setting up a server would be an additional thing on top of everything else that'd need some learning first. I

Re: [SailfishDevel] Simple device to device communications

2015-05-14 Thread Kaj-Michael Lang
On to, 2015-05-14 at 19:57 +0300, Jani Nuutinen wrote: > What might the most crude requirements be when looking into simple > device to device (/application to application) communications? > Depends a bit, if the devices are on the same network then you could use for example simple broadcast UDP

[SailfishDevel] Simple device to device communications

2015-05-14 Thread Jani Nuutinen
What might the most crude requirements be when looking into simple device to device (/application to application) communications? Just to illustrate the question a bit more (in this example two different users have their own devices and are using the same application for the communication): a use