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Open Garden makes its offline mesh networking tech available to third-party developers

February 27, 2017

Open Garden, the company behind the FireChat offline messenger, is now the mesh networking tech behind its apps available for all developers. The company today announced the launch of its MeshKit SDK, which enables developers to easily integrate peer-to-peer connectivity into their apps, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. The classic use case for this is chat apps, but it also works for more media-rich services or pushing even smaller updates like sports results.

For now, the SDK, which had quietly launched on the company’s website a few months ago, will only be available to Android developers but the company tells me that it will also launch an iOS version soon. Developers will also have to contact the company for access to the SDK.

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