Take pictures on other iOS devices using bluetooth

Question

I'd appreciate if someone with iOS bluetooth experience could show me how to take pictures on other iOS devices using bluetooth classes. This app lets users login/register and afterwards take and upload pics. http://www.raywenderlich.com/13511/how-to-create-an-app-like-instagram-with-a-web-service-backend-part-12 My goal is to, on tap of a user photo in the apps uiscrollview (which displays all uploaded photos), activate the snapStillImage method of AVFoundation below.

//this code takes a picture
- (void)snapStillImage //this takes a picture via [self snapStillImage] in viewDidLoad
{
dispatch_async([self sessionQueue], ^{
    // Update the orientation on the still image output video connection before capturing.
    [[[self stillImageOutput] connectionWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo] setVideoOrientation:[[(AVCaptureVideoPreviewLayer *)[[self previewView] layer] connection] videoOrientation]];
    // Flash set to Auto for Still Capture
    [ViewController5 setFlashMode:AVCaptureFlashModeAuto forDevice:[[self videoDeviceInput] device]];
    // Capture a still image.
    [[self stillImageOutput] captureStillImageAsynchronouslyFromConnection:[[self stillImageOutput] connectionWithMediaType:AVMediaTypeVideo] completionHandler:^(CMSampleBufferRef imageDataSampleBuffer, NSError *error) {
        if (imageDataSampleBuffer)
        {
            NSData *imageData = [AVCaptureStillImageOutput jpegStillImageNSDataRepresentation:imageDataSampleBuffer];

            photo.image = [[UIImage alloc] initWithData:imageData];
            [[[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init] writeImageToSavedPhotosAlbum:[photo.image CGImage] orientation:(ALAssetOrientation)[photo.image imageOrientation] completionBlock:nil];
            [self uploadPhoto];
}
    }];
});
}

Id imagine every user would need to become a central/peripheral at login? I have 0 experience with setting up BLE on iOS let alone equipped with server functions. Any ideas or tips would be awesome.

Answer 1

You should have a look at the iOS7+ MultipeerConnectivity Framework, which allows nearby devices to communicate amongst themselves. This is easy to send message from one device to (an)other device(s) through this framework, wrapped into a NSData variable.

This framework is really easy to set up, but do not hesitate to have a look at GitHub search results.