WifiNanScan App

Developed with Google

About this app

The WifiNanScan app measures the distance between two smartphones using the Wi-Fi Aware protocol (also called Neighborhood Aware Networking(NAN)). It’s 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. (See also WifiRttScan.) Your phone must be a model/OS that supports WiFi RTT for this app to function.

Ratings and reviews

I'm on the lookout for any and all apps that have wifi meshing capabilities. The repeater\bridging function\feature is built-in for many fonez 8.0+↑ undocumented, so a system settings search will get you going in the right direction for those that would find it indispensably invaluable. Wi-Fi=on, Hotspot setup then turn on simultaneously w\wifi to rebroadcast with password enabled for improved public APN security

Works as described. (with some devices) I don't understand why people give 1 star reviews when it's their phone that doest support the app. One could simply uninstall the app and move on. I have 3 budget devices and 2 work with this app as intended. Example, the Moto G8 power didn't work. The Blu G90 pro did. Both run Android 10. On the two phones that work with the app, I honestly thibk, with a little work, this may be the future of device to device sharing.

This app works as intended. For anyone reading the low star reviews, this is because their device WiFi chip doesn't support WiFi RTT. This is an essential requirement for this to work. For example, my Sony XZ Premium will not work, despite Android 9. Neither does my Sony XA2 Running LOS (A10). Neither have RTT support. However, both Pixel 3a and 5 work fine as both support this function. Developer probably should mention this, as not all hardware support it (802.11mc).

What’s new

Bugfix and enforce Q+ SDK