soledad penadés

I'm doing some research and playing with this new-ish API which is available in Firefox OS on rooted phones with Certified apps etc etc. Guillaume wrote a post on the Hacks blog--read it if you're interested in what can be accomplished.

The very first thing you need to do is to enable Wi-Fi direct on the device. This involves running some commands as root, via adb. Justin made a gist which worked with Flame phones, but it didn't work with a Nexus 4, because of the way the /system partition is mounted on those phones.

A (more?) fail-proof way should be this:

#!/bin/sh
adb shell "mount -o rw,remount /system"
adb shell "stop b2g"
adb shell "echo \"ro.moz.wifi.p2p_supported=1\" >> /system/build.prop"
adb shell "mount -o ro,remount /system"
adb reboot

this will add a line to the /system/build.prop file and reboot the device.

Once it's rebooted, the result of navigator.mozWifiP2pManager.enabled should be true, which is GOOD NEWS!

Remember that you need to run that code in

1. a certified app
2. request the wifi-manage permission in the manifest

So essentially your manifest.webapp MUST contain the following fields in addition to the rest of fields you usually have:

{
  "type": "certified",
  "permissions": {
    "wifi-manage": "for wi-fi direct"
  }
}