The app makes use of some crazy iOS 7 technologies developed by Apple to let you talk locally over Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and with each additional local user, the network gets bigger. FireChat hit the top 10 in the App Stores Social Networking category in over 80 countries, leaving Android users wanting. It would appear that FireChat would only work on iOS, considering its use of Apples messaging protocols, but behind the scenes, app developer Open Garden was seemingly also working on an Android version. While any iOS developer can use Apples multi-peering API to create an app similar to FireChat, the companys Android app operates on a very different and proprietary mesh networking technology it developed internally.
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