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Social Applications on Android using NFC and Junction
NFC Brings our Devices Together Recently, many of us in the Stanford MobiSocial lab have grown very excited about the prospect of having NFC in smartphones. NFC, or near-field communication, allows two...
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Social applications between phones and a TV using NFC
A few weeks ago, we demonstrated a few social applications running between two Android phones, using NFC and Junction to make the setup as easy as possible. Now, we’ve put together a few more...
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Adding NFC to Legacy Devices
The Setup NFC will enable a host of new applications for smartphones, but it will be a few years before the technology becomes ubiquitous. But that doesn’t mean our old phones can’t join in for some...
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(Re-)Introducing Junction
Our project Junction has been around for a while, but I realized we never formally wrote it up on this blog. We just submitted our latest paper on the platform, so now seems like a good time to say a...
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As NFC finds its way into more and more phones, developers can start thinking about how to use it to make their applications more viral, more engaging, and easier to use. Android’s recent release of...
View ArticleWriting Serverless, Multiplayer Apps for Android
Writing a multiplayer game for Android can be a bit of a chore. Standard options today include standing up a server to manage your games’ matches, or requiring those games take place purely locally...
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