I can let my WatchKit app interact with the iPhone app using WCSession but this doesn't seem to work over LTE. How can I make that work? Does Apple provide anything for this?
I need to communicate with the app about once per minute.
I found this on Google: https://developer.android.com/wear/images/wear_cloud_node.png from https://developer.android.com/training/wearables/data-layer/index.html
Something like this would be nice but doesn't look as instant as WCSession
The WatchConnectivity framework, which contains WCSession uses Bluetooth for communication between an iPhone and an Apple Watch, so it cannot be used for obvious reasons if you'd want to use a watch on LTE.
Currently, there is no direct method for what you are trying to achieve and probably there won't be one in the foreseeable future. The point of the LTE Apple Watch is so that you can access the internet even when your phone is not with you. However, in this situation it wouldn't really make sense to synchronise your data between the two devices until they are physically located close to each other.
You have to upload the data you want to synchronise to a server, from which the iPhone can download it, but I really would advise against this, since it seems to be a waste of resources (both battery capacity and data).
Related
I am a beginner iOS developer and I am trying to build an app which tracks the users SMS (Number) and Call data (Minutes/day) only but have no clue which framework to use. CoreTelephony is of no use as per my knowledge. Any help would be appreciated!
Call Statistics and SMS Statistics are handled by the cell carrier, but are also recorded by the phone and are visible in the settings application. However, there is no way for your app to access this information (as far as i know). It would be a privacy concern and probably won't ever be available. Im sure there is a way to do it on a jailbroken device, but it sounds like thats not what you want. What exactly does your app do?
I am building an app that will run on a user's iPhone and iPad. People will enter information on either device. I am looking for methods in which the data can be synchronized between the devices.
Would I have to force people into something like iCloud or Dropbox?
I think It would be a good idea to consider using iCloud as iOS 5 will soon make this the accepted standard and people will expect it.
If you don't want any sort of server-side solution (i.e. iCloud or something you write yourself) then have you thought of bluetooth / wifi - assuming the users will have their devices near to each other then you could sync directly from device to device.
However, I would probably have some sort of server that did the sync and stored the data - you could make this free for a certain amount of data and then charge for anything more than that - hopefully that would recoup the cost of running the server.
I am currently starting my way on developing iPhone applications, and I have recently encountered a problem which I could not find a proper answer to.
In my application, I want one iPhone to send a request and another, far iPhone respond to that request using an Alert View, almost like the way Game Center works when you invite someone to play with you.
Do I do that with Push Notifications? Some server? Or what?
Thanks ahead,
A Newbie Developer.
Not the simplest things to try and do when you are new - but have a look at GameKit.
There is a sample application called GKTap which shows how to hook up two iPhones.
Don't be fooled by the word Game. This framework makes it easy to set up communication between phones, even using Bluetooth.
It depends on what you mean by "far". If you mean in another room, but within Bluetooth range or on the same local network, then there is GameKit. If you mean on a different network, or a long distance away, then you are looking at needing to have a server that keeps track of the devices and the connections between the devices so you can use Push Notifications. If you are thinking of something like Words With Friends where it sends a message to another user to tell them it is their go, then you would need the server.
I am working on an app for the iPad and would like to be able to include the option to use a separate iOS device to control it. I have seen examples of this with games (notably Chopper 2), but have no idea how it is done.
Can anyone point me in the direction of the iOS frameworks that back this feature? I have looked through the SDK but cannot find the relevant sections.
Thanks
Im sure they use Game Kit or you could use the lower level Bonjour discovery.
Read through the GameKit docs.
You can start there. I guess the controller is actually a separate feature of the app that just sends messages over the network, using sockets to send and receive the data.
Send over the network from the controller. Receive them on the ipad in a running thread or however the service you use handles it. process the received messages.
Agreed with #alJaree. I'm working on something similar, though I've found it much easier to implement through Unity. Prime31 has a number of sweet plugins that allow you to implement things like Bluetooth through gamekit in a single line of code. I'm on my ipad right now so I cant be sure of the exact URL, but I think it's just prime31.com, in their 'unity' section.
Which of the new features are you looking forward to the most in iPhone SDK 3.0?
Is it one of the main advertised six new things, or something smaller? Something in the "1,000 new APIs", perhaps?
Phone to phone communication via bluetooth seems like it will terribly useful for some apps I am writing. No longer do you have to input all the data you want to store yourself, you can share some of it with other iPhone users.
not really a feature, but the best thing about developing the iPhone SDK further is the great frameworks that arise. there are some really, really great frameworks out there already (like the Three20 project) which will become even better with the new 3.0 SDK.
my real excitement will take over once they let us run background processes. maybe in 4.0?
Video! The ability to write decent tools for mobile video uploads is a big draw.
MapKit by far will bring the biggest change sweeping across the app space.
My personal favorite is that we can finally easily track upload progress of large files (like images).
I really, really want to see fixes in the camera API so that it isn't either broken (2.2.1) or forcing a switch to portrait (3.0).
Apart from that, the most useful features to me are:
push notifications. Great for making an app more sticky - you can let the user know that something of interest to them has happened.
CoreData - I've been using a third-party SQL layer, but it's a little buggy and no longer supported.
Peer-peer bluetooth, as the poster above said, is also useful for local data exchange.
And the least useful? Cut and paste. I actually want to disable it in my app (to discourage people from copying content) - and it doesn't look as though you can (yet).
Bluetooth phone-to-phone communication with GameKit will enable a host of currently impossible applications. Multiplayer games with no WiFi network needed and data exchange between two phones are obvious use-cases.
I'd also like to see - not currently included in the betas - a decent camera API that allowed us to customize the appearance of the capture screen, and as another poster said, have it work properly in landscape and portrait mode.