Google has launched a new app. Its name is WifiNanScan. With the help of this app, users will be able to connect other devices including their nearby smartphones without Bluetooth and WiFi.
In simple words, even if the phone does not have a network, with the help of this app, all the tasks related to the Internet and Wi-Fi will be done. However, Google's new app WifiNanScan is currently designed for developers, allowing them to experiment with WiFi Aware.
Wi-Fi Aware is a Neighbor Awareness Networking, which helps to connect one smartphone to another without an external device. The WifiNanScan app will only run on select smartphones, which support Android 8 and above.
With the help of this app, users will be able to share messages and data among themselves without Bluetooth and WiFi. According to Google's claim, this app is completely safe. With the help of this app, users can send documents to the printer safely with the help of network.
The WifiNanScan application is a successor of the WifiRttScan App which was launched by Google two years ago to harness Wi-Fi Round Trip Time in place of GPS for indoor positioning.
It is designed as a research, demonstration, and testing tool for developers, vendors, universities, and more. With this app it is possible to obtain a distance measurement with a precision of about 1 meter with phones up to 15 meters apart.
Developers, OEMs and researchers can use this tool to validate distance/range measurements enabling the development of peer-to-peer ranging and data transfer, find my phone and context-aware applications based on the WiFi Aware/NAN API.
Users will get these benefits
Users will not have to log in on any network when the Google app is installed in the phone. The company claims that with the help of WiFi Aware app, you will be able to book seat in any restaurant and movie tickets without internet connection.
If there is no internet connection in your phone, then all the works will be done without internet. This Google app can be downloaded from the Google Play Store.