Re: Obtaining SSID string in iOS 9
Re: Obtaining SSID string in iOS 9
- Subject: Re: Obtaining SSID string in iOS 9
- From: Carl Hoefs <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2015 16:35:03 -0700
- X_v_e_cd: 6c90914c9586fe1af45181e9dc63e97a
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"indicating why you need the SSID"
You're kidding, right?
-Carl
> On Nov 12, 2015, at 4:03 PM, Rick Mann <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Sadly, this is the direction Apple has taken. You can try to ask them for an exception (I think for getting approved as a hotspot helper), but they refused my request. I don't even remember the right channel to ask.
>
> I do recommend writing a Radar report indicating why you need the SSID.
>
>> On Nov 12, 2015, at 11:04 , Carl Hoefs <email@hidden> wrote:
>>
>> I have an in-house iPhone app that displays the SSID of the connected WiFi ad-hoc network on the UI.
>>
>> I've been using these simple steps to get a network info dictionary:
>> CNCopySupportedInterfaces()
>> CFArrayGetValueAtIndex()
>> CNCopyCurrentNetworkInfo()
>>
>> In iOS 9, the above has been deprecated in favor the new NEHotspotHelper class. My app doesn't want/need to be a 'hotspot helper', I just would like to obtain the current network's SSID string, if any. Using NEHotspotHelper seems like tremendous overkill (plus having to register the app as a 'hotspot helper') just to do this. Is there a simpler way?
>>
>> -Carl
>>
>>
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