How to add BUMP to mobile app – With the growing use of smart phones and tablets, companies and innovators around the world are working to make them intuitive, simple and fun to interact with people around.
Have you heard of Bump? Okay, we would like share this interesting and intuitive mobile app and technology behind it. Bump, allows you to exchange contact information wirelessly. Not only that, it allows you to use and leverage the technology with in your own Mobile App. Cool, is not it !!
The app Bump, available for iPhone and Android phones, simplifies sharing contacts and transferring photos or money between phones. It facilitates transferring photos from a phone to a personal computer with a simple physical bump to another phone nearby, which also has the Bump app installed. The app immediately exchanges contact information between phone owners. This same technology enables sharing other applications like photo sharing and money payments. Bump gained attention at South by Southwest 2010 in Austin, quickly amassing over 10 million downloads within its first year of release.
How exactly BUMP Technology works ?
Technically, the way BUMP works has two parts.
(i) Identification: Detecting physical Bumps from mobile phones around the world, by collecting .
(ii) Classification: Pairing two mobile devices based on the pairing algorithms
Identification: The app first need to detect a bump. During the identification phase, the App on your smartphone collects information from the phone sensors and organizes it into a specialized data structure. Then, it submits this data to the BUMP Backend cloud. Utilizing sensor data like accelerometer and EMF sensor, the device detects a BUMP, gathers additional information such as geo-location, IP address, density values (which determine tolerances), and other data parameters.
Classification: A smart matching algorithm running on BUMP cloud listens to the bumps from phones around the world and pairs up phones that felt the same bump. Then the Core Algorithms just route information between the two phones in each pair
With Bump one is in control of deciding with whom they share their information. Bump requires a strong connection to the Internet so that the Bump app can communicate with Bump cloud. Bump uses whatever Internet connection is available on your device, whether that is WiFi or Cellular. It requires geo-location service to be active. Bump use location information as one of the ways to limit the number of other phones, that it have to check to determine the correct match (pair). Basically, if you are in Chicago, it uses that info so it don’t have to compare your bump with bumps coming in from Japan, Europe, New York, etc. For this reason, they require that location services be turned on and that users authorize the use of their location information. If you do not authorize use of location information, Bump won’t work.
How can you leverage Bump Technology for your own App ?
At Krify, we receive growing requests from our customers to utilize this technology in their own apps. Leveraging the Bump API enables the identification and pairing of bumps. Users receive 95% of matches in less than one second from the time of bump, utilizing secure end-to-end TLS encryption. The connections are established intuitively, using a gesture known and loved by over 85 million Bump users.
Connections remain persistent with no requirement to hold phones together across sessions. Bump technology is invaluable for mobile apps facilitating user interaction. For instance, Flock simplifies photo sharing among friends.
