Droidcon Day 1: Peer-to-Peer (P2P) apps coming to Android

The first day at Droidcon was a barcamp in which the community proposed talks and presentations were free-styled. There were some common themes that emerged, here's one of them.


Apps that make use of peer-to-peer on smartphones are coming soon
Several presentations at Droidcon featured P2P applications and extensions of the Android platform. We're likely to see an explosion of apps that make use of P2P in the games arena especially, but this type of functionality could also be used on the Amazon Kindle app for Android to share comments, bookmarks and features. Wouldn't it be great to be able to share extracts from books and lists of what you're reading with other friends with the Kindle app?

One barrier to P2P on smartphones is the power draining problems of bluetooth, but the next generations of phones will have improved wireless connectivity that will use far less power. One very interesting talk by Nick Hunn explored how this new technology would usher in an age of Android phones that linked to satellite devices that communicate with one another, such as a pedometer, a house alarm  or your car instruments. Your phone would become a data aggregation hub and really start to monitor your every move. Cool.