The Sorry State of Peer-to-Peer iOS-to-Android connectivity

The popular game app "Spaceteam" does an amazing job of real time p2p communication between iOS and Android devices. It would be great if the developer could release some sort of open-source library for those connections so other people could build on his/her work.

This is the main area where I suspect Google&#x27;s greater reliance on clouds leads them to castrate their operating systems. Last time I checked Chrome OS still didn&#x27;t even support Bonjour mDNS. (Still the case, and it&#x27;s related to this first mentioned in 2009: <a href="https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=13573" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;code.google.com&#x2F;p&#x2F;chromium&#x2F;issues&#x2F;detail?id=13573</a> )<p>The Android stuff alone is an inconsistent trainwreck (because not all hardware supports all options on a given version of the OS either) and it took them a long time to get there.<p>Apple really have been leading the sane local peer-to-peer world ever since Bonjour first appeared, and the new developments have just extended their lead.<p>It will be interesting to see just how this difference affects the nature of their respective wearables.

WebRTC works pretty well on Android.<p>But apparently Apple has kept it out of iOS Safari and doesn&#x27;t allow other browsers to implement it?

This ongoing attempt by Apple to hobble iOS is why I&#x27;ve decided that my next device would be an Android device. I&#x27;ll have access to filesystem, I can run an SSH server on my phone which means I basically can do pretty much everything I need to spend less time &quot;managing&quot; my content without having to buy into an whole eco system of Apple devices. E.g. i can push new music files automatically to my phone via a script), access newer photos&#x2F;videos taken on my phone on various trips and sync them back to my computer (without having to rely on cloud etc).