Ahoy! 0.9.1
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Ahoy! - Ahoy! is an Android App which allows for local, broadcast-style communication.
Ahoy! is an Android App which allows for local, broadcast-style communication. You can broadcast a message using your phone and people around you will be able to see the message on their phones. They, too, can broadcast messages or choose to repeat your message to extend its range.
Messages are compressed and encoded as WiFi access point names (SSIDs). While this approach allows for very short messages only – so short, in fact, that it makes Tweets look verbose in comparison – it has a number of interesting properties:
• Communication is inherently local. This means that when you go somewhere, and there's a message in the air, it refers to where you currently are. Relevance is defined by where you are right now, not by who you're following on Twitter, which Facebook groups you're in, or who's in your Google+ Circles.
• Communication is anonymous.
• Messages do not travel accross the Internet, therefore:
• Messages can not be monitored from far away.
• Broadcasting messages is robust towards Internet outages. However, broadcasting can be inhibited locally using a WiFi jammer.
• Broadcasting messages is free.
• It even works without a SIM card.
• There are no accounts or personal information.
• Messages are volatile.
Although in practice, SSID may only contain a handful of ASCII characters, Ahoy can be used to send messages in any language, using any script defined by Unicode. However, message lengths vary depending on the language a message is written in. Specialized language packs which employ Huffman coding are used to maximize message lengths for most languages, resulting in message lengths of 45 to 55 characters on average. Ahoy chooses the most compact encoding automatically, falling back to UTF-8 or UTF-16 if no appropriate language pack is available.
About Ahoy!
Ahoy! is a free app for Android published in the Telephony list of apps, part of Communications.
The company that develops Ahoy! is N. Harold Cham. The latest version released by its developer is 0.9.1.
To install Ahoy! on your Android device, just click the green Continue To App button above to start the installation process. The app is listed on our website since 2013-08-28 and was downloaded 4 times. We have already checked if the download link is safe, however for your own protection we recommend that you scan the downloaded app with your antivirus. Your antivirus may detect the Ahoy! as malware as malware if the download link to org.nhcham.ahoy is broken.
How to install Ahoy! on your Android device:
- Click on the Continue To App button on our website. This will redirect you to Google Play.
- Once the Ahoy! is shown in the Google Play listing of your Android device, you can start its download and installation. Tap on the Install button located below the search bar and to the right of the app icon.
- A pop-up window with the permissions required by Ahoy! will be shown. Click on Accept to continue the process.
- Ahoy! will be downloaded onto your device, displaying a progress. Once the download completes, the installation will start and you'll get a notification after the installation is finished.
