Mesh networking from iOS to Android

Question

Is there any framework that connects an iOS device to an Android device using a mesh network?

There are apps like FireChat that ables users to speak to each other using only Bluetooth and wifi (via Apple's multipeer connectivity framework). But is there any way to connect iOS devices to Android devices using multipeer connectivity of some kind?

I'm trying to build an app like FireChat to be used by some friends here in college, but it needs to connect iOS devices to Android devices. If there would only be iOS devices, multipeer connectivity framework would be just fine, but in this case, I don't know which framework to use in order to connect all these devices.

Answer 1

I believe the Open Garden SDK may be able to meet your needs.

Basically it is an SDK for multipeer communication, by the creators of Firechat. And they claim that it is the same technology that Firechat uses, so I believe it will work with Bluetooth.

They also claim it works on Android and iOs, and as Firechat works on Android too now, I would believe that it is true.

Sorry for all the hypotheticals, but I have not been granted access to it yet so I can´t confirm any of these facts.