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This reminds me of my final year project :) https://github.com/imarihantnahata/Bluetooth-Manager We implemented DYMO routing protocol over Bluetooth for Android devices and then created Chat, Messaging and File Sharing services over the basic routing framework that we created.

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Hey this seems really cool, I'll have to read up on how you do some of this stuff - do you keep bluetooth connections open to multiple other devices?

Yes,we do open connections to multiple devices, 7 being the maximum limit of the Bluetooth stack. We also have a thread that runs every 10 seconds and checks the last time a message was send to a device. if the time is greater than 300 seconds then we used to disconnect that device so that new devices could add to the topology.

I see, so the use case here is real time messaging and chat? Like if there's a lot of people in a given area they care fire this up and talk? That sounds pretty awesome. We were going more for a slowly propagating P2P effect that might take days for a message to reach someone farther away, but I like the sound of what you've got there too.

Very neat! Does this have a license associated with it?

Since it was a college project, we didn't think much about licensing and stuff :)

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