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DanielH
DanielH

Reputation: 953

iOS and bluetooth

I want to develop an app which will communicate with devices via bluetooth. I am not able to find any tutorial to help me with this. I don't mean bluetooth 4.0 LE but classic bluetooth. All I have found is CoreBluetooth framework but I think this is only for bluetooth LE. I have found also something like IOBluetooth and IOBluetoothUI but I am not sure if it is for Mac OS or for iOS. But still can't find any tutorial or something to help me understand whole process (discovering, establish connection, communication,...). Can you help me with this?

Upvotes: 8

Views: 7939

Answers (2)

DanielH
DanielH

Reputation: 953

OK so I just found this article.

According to this article there are 5 ways how to work with Bluetooth:

  1. Enroll MFI program - expensive and long period process
  2. CoreBluetooth framework - works only with Bluetooth 4.0 LE devices
  3. GameKit framework - only for iOS device (two iPhones) so you can't work with other device then with iOS
  4. Private API - app with private API won't be approved by Apple on the Appstore
  5. Jailbreak

It seems there isn't normal official way how to work with bluetooth.

My case: I want to communicate with not iOS device which has bluetooth 2.1 and I want to have it on the app store -> I can use only first one so I am screwed...

Upvotes: 10

Bartu
Bartu

Reputation: 2210

You can check out GameKit's bluetooth feature. A basic tutorial here

Also you can check Ray Wenderlich's tutorial which is a bit more enchanced one. Can be found here.

Upvotes: 0

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