iOS and bluetooth

Question

I want to develop an app which will communicate with devices via bluetooth. I am not able to find any tutorial to help me with this. I don\'t mean bluetooth 4.0 LE but class

Answer 1

OK so I just found this article.

According to this article there are 5 ways how to work with Bluetooth:

1. Enroll MFI program - expensive and long period process
2. CoreBluetooth framework - works only with Bluetooth 4.0 LE devices
3. GameKit framework - only for iOS device (two iPhones) so you can't work with other device then with iOS
4. Private API - app with private API won't be approved by Apple on the Appstore
5. Jailbreak

It seems there isn't normal official way how to work with bluetooth.

My case: I want to communicate with not iOS device which has bluetooth 2.1 and I want to have it on the app store -> I can use only first one so I am screwed...

Answer 2

You can check out GameKit's bluetooth feature. A basic tutorial here

Also you can check Ray Wenderlich's tutorial which is a bit more enchanced one. Can be found here.