LocalSocial is designed to simplify the process of building new mobile social applications that can re-mix social and local context to offer a new, rich mobile experience. LocalSocial combines information about people and things close to a user, with information from one or more of their social networks, and makes that information available to a mobile application in a simple way.
LocalSocial has 2 key components:
1. The LocalSocial Mobile Library which is deployed on the handset. This gives developers APIs that allow them to:
a) Use proximity to detect devices nearby using Bluetooth, WiFi, and (soon) NFC
b) Connect securely to the LocalSocial Service
c) Discover information about the devices nearby - including opt-in social tags and information
e) Send messages to devices nearby, store tags about those devices for later
2. The LocalSocial Cloud Service is a web-hosted service which mediates between the mobile application and the cloud, and stores and retrieves information about the devices (as tags), tracks analytics, and provides social connections to key social networks.
LocalSocial Components Overview
LocalSocial delivers the following benefits to developers of proximity applications
- LocalSocial hides the complexities of proximity detection and management: gives the developer a simple but expressive API enabling their application to look for devices nearby, retrieve any associated information about those devices, and update the LocalSocial CloudStore with updated or new information about devices in range.
- A single consistent API is available across multiple platforms including J2ME & Android so that developers do not need to learn different libraries.
- LocalSocial makes it possible to create applications that allow the user to link their device and online identities – this opens up a broad range of applications and opportunities for developers to add compelling new features to their offerings.
- The LocalSocial messaging API makes it easy for developers to create applications which communicate to devices nearby.
- LocalSocial website (www.mylocalsocial.com) looks after the user’s profile administration requirements: users can manage passwords, networks, applications, and settings from one place.
- LocalSocial already supports many popular social networks and can be extended to support other public or private networks as required for your application.
- LocalSocial uses OAuth to ensure that subscribers credentials are never compromised.
- Saves time: using LocalSocial, developers can create rich connected applications in a fraction of the time otherwise required.
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