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Hey! That was our doing. :-) Apportable (Winter 2011) worked to bring Spaceteam over to Android and we had to face this problem head on. Bluetooth LE does work for Android <-> iOS but it requires a really new Android device with the right hardware, otherwise the safest option is Wifi. A lot of code involved. We open sourced the code we wrote to run on the Android side: https://github.com/apportable/Bluetooth

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This really isn't device-to-device communication -- both the iOS and Android devices have to be on the same WiFi network for Spaceteam to work.

Only when using cross-platform. Bluetooth works for Android-->Android or iOS-->iOS.

Not via Bluetooth though. Also, mobile hotspot clients (any OS) do not see the host. We failed to play on a recent camping trip.

Rather than a mobile hotspot you want to create an ad-hoc wifi network between your devices. I've successfully played that way.