Can i communicate iPhone with any wifi-direct enable devices programmatically ?
I have used "bonjour protocol" for peer-to-pree communication but i am only able to communicate between two iOS devices.
I want to create an iOS App(remote control) for an wifi-direct enable Android TV,Is this possible ?
I have enable wifi-direct in android phone and able to connect my iPhone with this network.So i thing ,if connection is establish then communication should be possible.
can any one please help me so that i can communicate my iPhone App this any wifi-direct enable devices.
You can use the multipeer connectivity framework for iOS to communicate between iOS devices. It will select the appropriate wireless protocol to use based on the circumstances. For this reason, and that it's built on bonjour protocol, I don't believe it will work out of the box with Android.
You can try your own custom framework, or you can experiment with something like Thali which is built on Cordova and is pretty decent from the small amount I've played with it.
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Currently i am using MultipeerConnectivity kit for making connection between iOS devices. But need is to detect or scan android devices too to connect with them.
Multipeer Connectivity will only allow you to connect with other iOS devices.
It might be worth looking at the Thali project which is a library built on top of Cordova to achieve what you're trying to do. If you look at their source code, you might be able to glean some information on how to do this yourself.
I'd like to know if there is a way to send some data from my iphone to my apple tv.I'll explain:I want to make an app for my apple tv and extend this app to my iphone.Using the extension in running on the iphone you should send some data to my app in running on my apple tv.Sending data it should not be through wi-fi but using for example the bluethoot.How should I do to build this comunication?Can you explain to me how to do or link me some resources?Thanks to all!
Ps. sorry for my english!
The MultipeerConnectivity framework should allow you to do this. It's available in the SDK and supported by both tvOS and iOS.
The advantage is that you don't have to chose what type of connection the devices use. It supports both WiFi and BT. But if you don't want to use WiFi because wifi is not available, it can by default create a peer to peer wifi network between devices.
https://developer.apple.com/reference/multipeerconnectivity
And also, here https://www.hackingwithswift.com/example-code/system/how-to-create-a-peer-to-peer-network-using-the-multipeer-connectivity-framework is a good tutorial.
Our guys in the field use equipment that have wifi and Bluetooth connectivity. One of our users has been using a non-iPhone (I guess Android) to transfer files between his phone and the equipment through Bluetooth. However, in switching our users to iPhones to use other enterprise apps we have discovered what some of you already know: iOS's Bluetooth connectivity is severely limited (i.e. no SPP protocol).
The equipment also communicates via wifi, so I was wondering if it's possible to create an app using iOS Multipeer connectivity to solve the Bluetooth problem. All I am finding about this, though, doesn't show anything but phone-to-phone multipeer connections, and not phone-to-machine multipeer connections.
At this point I know nothing about how the field equipment works; that's something I'll have to learn if we decide to pursue this. But assuming that it is capable of discovering wifi networks, would it be able to see the iPhone's network without needing any special software?
Or would I be wasting my time trying to figure this out?
Thanks!
If the equipment is using Bluetooth SPP then unless it is MFi certified you can pretty much forget about connecting to it from iOS. Multipeer connectivity won't do it, that's for sure.
WiFi may be a possibility - you need to get the iPhone and the equipment on the same WiFi network - you can't do this via an app though - you would need to use the WiFi settings in iOS - You will need to learn more about the equipment to see if that is possible.
Short answer: no. Only iOS 7.0+ or MacOS Yosemite+
MultipeerConnectivity is a framework for iOS and Mac OS. To send data using it, you need both devices to have iOS or MacOS with MultipeerConnectivity. You don't have any network-related parameters like "I prefer using bluetooth or wi-fi", it was designed to "just work out of box with simple goal - discover and connect other devices with MultipeerConnectivity.
It means that you can't send data from iPhone with MC to Android or Symbian or old iPhone with iOS <7 etc.
Before iOS7 you could use GameKit, but the logic is the same: both peers need to use GameKit.
If your custom equipment does not have iOS - you need to use lower-level API, and your options include generic Bonjour (NSNetService on iOS device and something Bonjour-compatible on custom device) or CoreBluetooth (obviously bluetooth-only, no wi-fi peer-to-peer) on the lowest level, using sockets and so on.
I am trying to develop an app that is used to communicate with another embedded device. But, i have no idea about how to make it possible. From blogs, i found that iPhone will not interact with other devices. Is there any Bluetooth chip that helps to connect with iPhone. Also, how we can communicate between this two devices.
I was wondering, if there is a way to use IPhone as an HID device, with some other device like PS3. I checked out the Bluetooth specification and IOS Devices do support HID Profile. So I thought it would be easy to pair my iPhone using passkey mechanism and should be able to start using my iPhone as keyboard or mouse without much hassle. But I found very soon that this assumption is naive and I need to develop custom solution.
I was initially thinking about using GameKit framework, but I think it only works between two compatible IOS Devices. If I want to extend this capability, then I have to use iPhone External Accessory API .In my analysis, I also found that iPhone will only communicate and pair with devices that are licensed by Apple. (Made for iPhone\iPod program). Does it mean that, if I want to use iPhone with another device, I need to get that device approved by Apple. ( Which will not surprise me one bit). Also if someone could point me to more detailed documentation on this, that will also be helpful.( What is an MFI developer board ??)
I do not want a solution that needs me to jailbreak an iPhone. (or any solution that will disqualify my app by Apple).
So to summarize:
1- Please validate my findings, correct them if they are wrong?
2a- How does External Accessory API Work?
b- Can I use this to connect to third party accessories ? (or is this only for accessory developers).
3- Or is there a better solution without using External Accessory API?
Please provide supportive documentation or link if you can. Thank You.
You are unlikely to get on the External accessory program from apple unless you are a big company ( you can try, but I have read this a number of places) . iPhones use a proprietary Bluetooth interface that and hardware must also implement this interface, so not much chance of getting it to connect to any other hardware directly.
Most apps like this (Remote Mouse) for example, connect to your wifi network, and have another application installed on your computer. The iphone can then talk to this application over the wi-fi network, but not bluetooth. I would suggest that the only way I can see this would be possible to to create the server app that you install on a computer on the wi-fi network that then in turn controls the 3rd party device if there is an API that you can use from the desktop app to control the 3rd party device.
This is just what I have found when I researched about this for making an app for iPhone to control a bluetooth watch. I had to jailbreak in the end to replace the bluetooth stack on the iPhone with one that could connect to any hardware device. Not limited by apple.