Yeah! 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 w

Yeah! 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.