Is there a way to communicate between phones?
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| Hi all, Just wondering if there is a way to communicate between phones somehow, thinking of multiplayer gaming. I have seen Xaron's mnet library but that seems to communicate with web pages via httpget but is there a way of communicating app to app? Specifically I'm keen to find something for android first. thanks, Matt |
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| Pretty ironic if there isn't, really! |
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| How do current multiplayer phone games work? My first thought would be to try to get Bluetooth working... |
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| I'd say WiFi should be the first focus. Most games from bigger companies (Gameloft) don't even consider Bluetooth for multiplayer due to very unstable connections. Packet loss, highly fluctuating ping, etc. |
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| I work on that as well. But this will take some time. First step was to do just some simple basic communication. Next step will be real communication using UDP/TCP via sockets. Of course this won't work for all platforms but I want to make it work for Android, iPhone and GLFW (for test purposes). |
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| Thanks Xaron - the monkey/blitz community is so helpful, generous and friendly. |
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| D'oh!! Of course WiFi!!... I'm getting old, I forgot that these new fangled devices have WiFi too! |
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| I am not sure exactly what support your are looking for, but you may want to take a look at OpenFeint's multiplayer capabilities. |
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| I'm pretty sure local iPhone multi-player through GameCenter uses Bluetooth |
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| For Android phones you can use the standard Java Socket API (Socket and ServerSocket classes respectively). You will need to create a wrapper for Monkey yourself. |
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| Thanks FlameDuck - good to know it can be done....at the moment however I think it may be beyond me to write a wrapper myself...but thanks for the info. |
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