Search for devices on the network with Bonjour / Zeroconf / jmDNS on PlayBook / Blackberry

Question

I would like to develop an Android application that will run on a Blackberry PlayBook. The application should find another device on the local network using the same application.

I thought to implement Bonjour / Zeroconf / jmDNS protocol for searching for devices, but ...

I just found out that the permission for android

android.permission.CHANGE_WIFI_MULTICAST_STATE

not supported on Blackberry or PlayBook. (Preference is required for the jmDND (Bonjour) protocol to work.)

https://bdsc.webapps.blackberry.com/android/apisupport/

Can you give me some suggestions on what would be best to achieve this on the PlayBook. Are there any alternatives?

Is Bonjour possible if you create your own SDK or Adobe AIR?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there is no built-in support for Bonjour / Zeroconf on the PlayBook, check this thread

Answer 2

You can try mDNS Service Discovery in the Blackberry world.

Here is a copy of the description:

mDNS Service Discovery is based on the Avahi open source project. This is a system that facilitates the discovery of services on a local network through the mDNS / DNS-SD protocol suite. This allows you to connect your laptop or computer to the network and instantly browse other people with whom you can chat, find printers for printing or file sharing. Compatible technology is found in Apple MacOS X (proprietary Bonjour, and sometimes Zeroconf).

Source code is available on the BlackBerry GitHub portal.

mDNS Service Discovery is part of the PlayCloud application - used to search for printers.