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Air Native Extension to add Bluetooth support for iOS apps.
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How to get data from other bluetooth devices ? #1

Closed hferreira closed 11 years ago

hferreira commented 12 years ago

This is a very cool native extension but is limited to connect between iDevices and how to get data from other devices (in this case read data is enought) ?

jamieowen commented 12 years ago

I'm assuming you mean Android and/or Bluetooth devices in general?

The GKSession/GKPPC classes used with this Native Extensions are from the Apple Game Kit SDK, so in true Apple fashion they will only communicate with other Apple devices. I haven't looked into trying to communicate with other non-apple devices unfortunately. Its not a feature of the GK classes that I know of, you'd need to use some other iOS Apis for that.

As for reading data, In a bluetooth setup like this, you wouldn't directly "read" data direct from a Peer. The GKSession object lets you send data to ONE peer or ALL peers. And then receive data along with the peerID that the data came from. From this you can query peers with a message and have the peer respond with the data you require. It's up to the programmer to create the system of messages that allows the communication to take place.

hferreira commented 12 years ago

Yes, it's to connect other non-Apple devices like Android for example.

Meanwhile I also realease what you said. This is for talk each other between iDevices.

I have deep search for this and have founded this possibility thru Core.Bluetooth.framework (only for iPhone4S or higher and New iPad or higher but I can live with that).

I'm a flex developer and this is my first contact with objective-c and xcode so this is a big chalange for at once learn objective-c, familiarize with xcode environment, build a native extension to be consumed by a flex sample project and at the end there is no garanties that will proper function with my target bluetooth device but I already started with the objective-c part.

jamieowen commented 12 years ago

Cool, let me know how it goes when you've completed it. I'd be curious to see how easy it is to communicate to other devices!

This native extension was my first test with Obj-C and I found it quite straightforward. The only headache was having to debug and test bluetooth on two devices :)

hferreira commented 12 years ago

OK. I will try to go as far I can and let's see the results.

th0f commented 11 years ago

Any success? I would be highly interested in such addition!

saar62097 commented 11 years ago

hey hferreira, any success in the time passed connecting iOS device to a non iOS device through BT with AIR/Flex mobile app?

hferreira commented 11 years ago

Unfortunately not. I am now dedicated to other project.

2013/1/31 saar62097 notifications@github.com

hey hferreira, any success in the time passed connecting iOS device to a non iOS device through BT with AIR/Flex mobile app?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/jamieowen/AirNativeiOS-Bluetooth/issues/1#issuecomment-12938687.

saar62097 commented 11 years ago

thnx

On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 1:44 PM, hferreira notifications@github.com wrote:

Unfortunately not. I am now dedicated to other project.

2013/1/31 saar62097 notifications@github.com

hey hferreira, any success in the time passed connecting iOS device to a non iOS device through BT with AIR/Flex mobile app?

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub< https://github.com/jamieowen/AirNativeiOS-Bluetooth/issues/1#issuecomment-12938687>.

— Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/jamieowen/AirNativeiOS-Bluetooth/issues/1#issuecomment-12938892.