<story><title>Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/announcing-nearby-connections-20-fully.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>Animats</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Today we&amp;#x27;re announcing the availability of this API across all Android devices running Google Play services 11.0 and up.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Of course, Google had to lock up peer to peer communication by tying it to their online store. It&amp;#x27;s also unencrypted and unauthenticated, so you don&amp;#x27;t want to use this for home control.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nearby Connections 2.0: offline high bandwidth peer to peer device communication</title><url>https://android-developers.googleblog.com/2017/07/announcing-nearby-connections-20-fully.html</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>crudbug</author><text>Another Google specific API. Please use open standard based communication framework [0] for your &amp;quot;connected&amp;quot; things.&lt;p&gt;[0] &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openconnectivity.org&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;openconnectivity.org&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>