Feature #2594
Bluetooth data channel for accessing p2p repos
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | 11/21/2013 | |
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: | - | % Done: | 100% | |
| Category: | - | |||
| Target version: | swap repos with Bluetooth and Bonjour | |||
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Description
When two devices connect and setup repos for each other, one of the options should be a two-way bluetooth channel for accessing the full repo. This bluetooth channel can be setup the manual way with PINs, etc. NFC and QR can also setup this bluetooth channel.
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#1 Updated by hans almost 4 years ago
BigBuffalo does this using RFCOMM:
https://github.com/guardianproject/securereader/tree/yakreader_sans_library/app/src/info/guardianproject/yakreader/installer
#2 Updated by hans almost 4 years ago
- Target version changed from 0.2 - ChatSecure/Bluetooth to Integrate Kerplapp into FDroid
#3 Updated by hans over 3 years ago
- Target version changed from Integrate Kerplapp into FDroid to swap repos with Bluetooth and Bonjour
#4 Updated by daithib8 over 3 years ago
How would you get around most Androids not accepting APKs via bluetooth? It's possible to share files right now if everybody's on a custom ROM but otherwise it fails confusingly. I used to rename the files to *.txt before sharing them.
#5 Updated by hans over 3 years ago
If an app sets up an RFCOMM connection with the same app on a different device, then the apps can send anything that they want.
About directly sending APKs via the system methods, first there are some easy hacks to get around the blocked sending of APKs (basically just declare the MIME type application/zip rather than using the APK MIME type). That has worked everywhere I've tried for sending.
Then it turns out that many stock ROMs like Samsung's do not block the receiving of APKs. So when you consider that all phones can send APKs and only some block receiving them, then the chances are pretty decent for success.
#6 Updated by hans almost 2 years ago
- Status changed from New to Closed