Development of Agent-Based, Peer-to-Peer Mobile Applications on ANDROID with JADE

In this paper, we describe how to develop peer-to-peer and social applications for the ANDROID SDK, the new mobile platform delivered by Google within the Open Handset Alliance at november 2007. In particular we focus on using JADE, a popular open source framework that facilitates the development of interoperable intelligent multi-agent systems. In our opinion JADE, thanks to the expressiveness of its communication model, brings strong added value to ANDROID SDK platform in the development of innovative applications based on social models and peer-to-peer paradigm.