This is a demo application highlighting how to advertise and discover local services that are Wi-Fi peer to peer network capable with the Wi-Fi Direct Service Discovery APIs. Service discovery on Wi-Fi direct allows applications to discover and enagage with peers that support a certain service. As an example, a gaming application can find and associate with devices that support the game. This application allows you to chat with a peer after a succesful connection.

The source code for this demo app shows how to accomplish three key things with Wi-Fi Direct Service Discovery APIs: Advertise services, discover services and connect to peers advertising such services

The application includes:

• WiFiServiceDiscoveryActivity — the main Activity that contains two fragments to handle app's UI. It advertises and discovers services and also registers a broadcast receiver for Wi-Fi Direct related events.
• WiFiDirectBroadcastReceiver — a BroadcastReceiver that listens for Wi-Fi Direct related events and passes them to WiFiServiceDiscoveryActivity and it's fragments for neccesary action.
• WiFiDirectServicesList — a ListFragment that displays available services, peers and their status.
• WiFiChatFragment — a Fragment that displays handles chat UI
• ChatManager — a Runnable that continously performs Socket I/O.
• GroupOwnerSocketHandler — a Thread that implements a server side Socket handler and spawns a client socket per connection.

If you are developing an application that uses the Wi-Fi Direct Service Discovery APIs, remember that the feature is supported only on Android 4.1 (API level 16) and higher versions of the platform. To ensure that your application can only be installed on devices that are capable of supporting Wi-Fi Direct Service Discovery, remember to add the following to the application's manifest before publishing to Google Play:

• <uses-sdk android:minSdkVersion="16" />, which indicates to Google Play and the platform that your application requires Android 4.1 or higher. For more information, see API Levels and the documentation for the <uses-sdk> element.

To control how Google Play filters your application from devices that do not support Wi-Fi Direct mode, remember to add the following to the application's manifest

• <uses-feature android:name="android.hardware.wifi.direct" />, which tells Google Play that your application uses the Wi-Fi Direct API. The declaration should include an android:required attribute that indicates whether you want Google Play to filter the application from devices that do not offer Wi-Fi Direct support. Other <uses-feature> declarations may also be needed, depending on your implementation. For more information, see the documentation for the <uses-feature> element.

For more information about using the Wi-Fi Direct Service Discovery APIs, see the android.net.wifi.p2p documentation.