So the Paper Planes app that debuted at Google I/O 2016 is now available at the Google Play Store. The app allows you to virtually send out a paper plane from your phone all around the world, and people will be able to “catch” these paper planes and see where they’ve been around the world. It’s a pretty nifty app.
Using available wireless technologies and network lines, the Paper Planes app will allow you to put your stamp on a piece of paper, fold it up, and send it into the ether where it flies around with thousands of other paper planes from other people around the world. Alternatively, you can give your phone a shake to “catch” one of these planes flying around, check out the stamps on the paper to see where it has been, and add your stamp on it.
What it is not is practical – there’s no practical use to the app except to highlight wireless connections and network technologies and what you can do with information you throw around. It is a nice gesture from Google and Active Theory, though, and as it is an Android Experiment, it really isn’t supposed to be a practical app.
Google says that it is something that brings people together through creativity. “We’re working to document creative experiments like these and make them open source so anyone can see how they are made, or get inspired to create their own,” the official blog post says. “Our hope is to encourage more developers to challenge how we interact with the devices we use every day.”
SOURCE: Android
DOWNLOAD: Google Play Store
