Is it possible to transfer files between a Mac app and a iOS app? I want to transfer files that are in the documents directory in my iOS App to my Mac App via Wifi, how could I do it?
Well, as of iOS 5 onwards, there's iCloud. Since that's still under NDA, I'll just have to point to the relevant documentation and let you read up on your own.
If not, I'd consider using the fabulous Dropbox APIs. This does require your users signing up for a Dropbox account, but then you get automatic two-way syncing between their Mac (or PC) and their iOS devices.
Failing that, there's always Bonjour. Properly configured - and it's not super easy, there is a bit of CFSocket or BSD socket work that you need to do - Bonjour will discover any services on the local network, Mac or iOS.
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I have a chrome extension running in my browser. I also have a Mac OSX app I wrote in Swift/Objective-c in Xcode. I am wondering how this chrome extension can talk to the Mac OSX app on the same computer.
I am aware of the Chrome Extension API, but do not know how I can capture the information from that is sent by Chrome in Swift. Does anyone know how to do this?
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There are two broad approaches you can take.
Native Messaging API. This does have the limitation that Chrome must launch the process (and communicate to it via STDIO) - you cannot attach to an existing process. The upside - the communication channel is pretty secure.
Your native app can expose a web server (or better yet, a WebSockets server) on a local port. The extension can then try to connect to this port and talk to your app. The downside is that anything (at least on the machine) can connect to your native app.
This is a frequently used approach; for example, 1Password or various IDE integrations work this way.
You could combine the two approaches to launch the app with a "launcher" Native Host if it's not running.
I realize it's been asked countless times whether iPhone apps can be built in Windows and that the simple answer is no, with workarounds such as using VM or even something like Dragon SDK which requires the app to be written in C/C++, but I would like to build an app using Objective C.
My question is can the code for an iPhone app not be developed on a Windows computer, uploaded to a remote Mac computer, compiled on the Mac, and then downloaded back to Windows to install via iTunes? I don't want to buy a Mac mini to get my feet wet with iPhone development, but I don't want to be limited to writing an HTML 5 app using Phone Gap or similar.
If nothing else, wouldn't it be possible to develop the app directly on a remote / virtual Mac using a remote desktop connection?
If either of these are possible, does anyone know of a company offering such a service? If not, what would be a likely reason that it hasn't been created? It seems like there would be enormous demand.
Perhaps http://www.macincloud.com/ is what you are looking for.
I believe what you're trying to do is not possible but how about MonoTouch ?
http://xamarin.com/monotouch
Using .NET on Windows technologies to develop iPhone and other apps ?
I want to be able to transfer basic information (strings and such) from an iOS device to a Mac, and vice versa, via apps installed on each device. I've been trying to get bluetooth on the iOS device, but it seems to only want to connect to other iOS devices.
Bluetooth access on the ios is very limited. As a matter of fact you can only access it through the GameKit.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/NetworkingInternet/Conceptual/GameKit_Guide/Introduction/Introduction.html
So if you want to share information with a Mac you would have to make the mac appear as an iOS device. I however ignore how you could do this.
I need my ios device to act like a server i.e. once I connect my iphone with computer I'll be able to upload documents to iphone and as well as download documents from iphone. I know this is possible but I forgot library that allow us to do that. Does anybody knows such library? Also any sample code will be really helpful
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Refer http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?AsyncSocket.
Using socket connection you can make your iphone as a server by running your app which makes a socket connection.
I am new to developing for the iPhone and would love some advice on an app i'm trying to develop.
Is it possible to send commands to an app on iOS 3.2 from OS X using AppleScript. The iOS app will display an image and run a small script when it recieves the appropriate command from the client software running on a Mac Mini. The devices would communicate over an a closed WiFi network.
Before I continue down this path does anyone have any advice on how to setup the communication (i.e. get the app to run in the background and listen on a designated port).
I don't know the full process but I know that various apps do this one way or another, such as 1password and desktop remote mouse apps. I think that CocoaAsyncSocket will help. An alternative to having the iOS app listening on a socket is to open a connection from iOS to OS X and then persist it. You can then send data either way through the connection.