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See also, FireChat[0] - released a month prior to Shortwave. [0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fire
by nanidin 12y ago
See also, FireChat[0] - released a month prior to Shortwave.
[0] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/firechat/id719829352?mt=8
- twodayslate 12y agoI thought that used wifi/Bluetooth rather than iBeacons.
- nanidin 12y agoiBeacons is bluetooth though (you interact with them via the core bluetooth framework)... FireChat does apparently also use wifi though since they use the multipeer connectivity API.
- siralonso 12y agoYeah! Firechat came out while we we were building Shortwave. They use the iOS multipeer API, which you should definitely check out. It can use infrastructure wifi, p2p wifi, or Bluetooth. The drawback is that it requires both apps to be in the foreground to establish a connection - think Airdrop. https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/MultipeerConnectivity/Reference/MultipeerConnectivityFramework/Introduction/Introduction.html https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/Multip... There's also a really good WWDC talk if you've got an iOS dev account.