I remember hearing about how Apple was going to include the ability to deploy an app from Xcode to your iPhone wirelessly in the 3.1 SDK. I believe it was to aid developers that wanted to deploy/test apps that used peripherals that plugged into the iphone's docking port- this way, they could deploy a build of the app with their peripheral device still plugged in.
Has anyone done this, or have a clue as to how to do this? Is it done via wifi network, via a direct bluetooth connection to the mac...?
I believe you can't deploy, but you can use Instruments over Wifi to performance tune your app.
You still need to use USB to allow for Xcode to install and debug your app.
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Is it possible to switch between WiFi networks in an iPhone App programmatically? At time of app execution if one network goes down but that is still connected and I want to switch to another wi-fi network. Is this possible?
Your iPhone app shouldn't manage wifi networks. If it does, it won't get approved by Apple to be put in the App Store. The iPhone itself manages wifi connections, not a third-party app.
If you are developing for a jailbroken iphone, you can develop a MobileSubstrate extension/ Tweak with Theos and hook into the SpringBoard Application. The SBWiFiManager interface is part of SpringBoard app and has a lot of useful methods that should help you with controlling WiFi.
There is no iOS API for this, but there can be some possible solutions, like make it available on Cydia for jailbroken devices. AirServer just did this.
is it possible to get data from external bluetooth device(not iphone) to iphone(bluetooth sensor to iphone)?because normally apple requires both end must open the application with same GKsessionID?any help please?will mFI provide special chip t0 install in external device?
This is related to the question about getting data from external device.
Se if this helps. I am trying to use the same in one of my project now.
I'm not sure what you mean about a special chip, but I can tell you that bluetooth can only be accessed via GameKit, which only works on Apple iOS devices. I'm sure there's some private api, but that would require jailbreaking, which would get your app rejected from Apple right away.
I want to be able to test my app while walking around my house, wirelessly. Can you connect the iphone to xcode thru wifi?
No. To load and debug you must use the USB interface.
It is possible to develop native applications and load application onto iphone/ipod devices before paying a Apple Developer Connection membership fee?If anybody knows please give me some idea about that.
No, not unless you have a jailbroken phone. You can download the SKD and test in the simulator for free, but to test on a device, you need to pay.
Including data exchange. I can not find such api in apple doc site. If it is not open in 3.1.2 sdk ,would apple release it in sdk4.0? I've heared that google released wireless api on android earlier . Thanks!
iPhones support ad-hoc wifi networking, so I expect you can make your device start an ad-hoc network and have the iPhone user connect manually. I doubt there will be an API for that, it's a security issue.