iOS Question B4i Bluetooth Serial Library

[walterf25]

Hi Erel, i just purchased B4i, i'm a little confused, is there or is there not a Bluetooth Serial Communication Library like in B4A, is there a way to accomplish this with B4i, I know there is a BLE library, but i would like to use the regular bluetooth protocol.

Thanks,
Walter

 

[Erel]

The answer is no. iOS doesn't expose this feature (SPP profile).

 

[jazzzzzzz]

@Erel So is there any workaround to communicate with ios? (b4a serial library to b4i).I want this feature to buy b4i..;(

 

[Erel]

Not with serial over Bluetooth. You can use TCP or UDP or a higher level protocol such as MQTT. For short messages MQTT is probably the best solution.

 

[jazzzzzzz]

Does MQTT support bluetooth?

My system does not have a client server environment,just device to device communication android phone to an iPhone without network (i need through bluetooth)

 

[Erel]

No. Apple doesn't expose the SPP profile.

If there is no network then you can enable hotspot on the Android device to create one.

 

[jazzzzzzz]

Thats not practical for this project

By iPhone BLE library we dont have any way to communicate with any android?

 

[Erel]

Currently no. Technically it is possible to transmit information with BLE and it will be added in the future.

Note that BLE is not a streaming protocol like SPP so it will only be useful for short messages.

 

[jazzzzzzz]

Ok ,am waiting for a feature to communicate IOS to android through bluetooth with out any network environment.

I just want to send a button press event to other device,dont need a stream of data in any way

 

[jazzzzzzz]

Above feature have been implemented by erel

https://www.b4x.com/android/forum/threads/ble-chat-connecting-android-and-ios.66543/