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##2016-07-31 So what I would like to achieve here (haven't started yet, no code exists) is a peer to peer communication client.

  • I'd like to build an android GUI for it
  • I think I'll also need a CLI proxy/client, which should be able to run on OpenWRT devices
  • to relieve the battery-powered android phones from having to always listen for incoming connections (staying awake)
  • at least where I come from (Austria) most mobile network providers won't give phones public reachable IP-adresses, only NATed access.
  • Clients (GUI and or CLI) for Windows and MAC would be a nice to have, maybe once Android GUI + OpenWRT CLI Proxy are done.

###OpenWRT because:

  • many people have a OpenWRT capable wifi router at home anyway.
  • many of which even have USB-ports which allow attaching storage devices, for example to also being able to relay bigger messages like multimedia.
  • when it is able to run on OpenWRT, it will most certainly also run on any other linux machine, like NAS devices or Raspberry PIs.

Although I'm not really a fan, the only programming language I know is capable of running on OpenWRT is C++. I'm planning to do more research before starting to code though.

Maybe Python could work?

##2016-08-01 I think even though Python is a more beautiful language than C++, the hassle of getting it to run (performant) on both OpenWRT and Android is a bigger drawback then me finally having to learn C++.

A nice design would be if the user interace where done in HTML+CSS+JS which could be both served directly from the proxy application running on OpenWRT and packaged into an Android or even an IPhone app with additional features delivered by PhoneGap.

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