Re: Air Drop-style sharing between instances of my app?
Re: Air Drop-style sharing between instances of my app?
- Subject: Re: Air Drop-style sharing between instances of my app?
- From: Jeff Kelley <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 22:09:54 -0400
That sounds like the perfect use case for using the MultipeerConnectivity framework. At a lower level, you could use Bonjour (though that requires the devices to be on the same network).
Jeff Kelley
> On Apr 20, 2016, at 9:33 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
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> Is there a way to do Air Drop-style sharing between two instances of my app (running on separate devices near each other)? It seems I can AirDrop to any other device, but I want to restrict it to devices that have my app installed.
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> Our app gathers app-specific data. It can be beneficial to the user to have more than one person using a device gathering data, and then have all the additional users transfer the data they gathered from their device to one "main" device.
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> Would Peer-to-peer connectivity be a way to accomplish this? The idea would be for users to browse for other nearby devices running the app, and then offer data, and have the other app pop up UI authorizing the transfer.
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> Thanks,
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> Rick Mann
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