Abstract

This research project aims to bring of the concepts of social networking and peer-to-peer networking to the mobile devices. This is successfully achieved through the implementation of an Android service to share information across a network with other peers. By taking advantage of the service discovery capabilities of the mobile devices it allows to keep track of other peers on the network. The implementation enabled a method to keep track of all the application-related data existing on the network in other devices and request the information whenever necessary without any user perception of the actual data sharing process. As the results show, this method is fairly quick and have a low impact on the device’s energy consumption. The result of this research project can be carried on to implement other features regarding social data sharing or to be used as a comparison with other future implementations using different technologies.