File transfer between android and iPhone via bluetooth?

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user1080731 picture user1080731 · Jan 3, 2012 · Viewed 70k times · Source

I was thinking of developing an iPhone and android application so that they can share data between each other via bluetooth. Is it possible? If yes how?

Thanks for your help

Answer

Dennis Mathews picture Dennis Mathews · Jan 3, 2012

The Question from user1080731 was - Is it possible to transfer Files Via Bluetooth between Android and iPhone.

And I think that the answer is NO.

The App referred to in the previous responses does not seem to use Bluetooth (the App's description is misleading) In the demo video for the app - It used Bluetooth when talking between 2 iOS devices, but uses WiFi when talking between Android and iPhone.

in iOS the only possibility is to use the GameKit APIs (primarily meant for peer to peer gaming) to talk to other iOS device using Bluetooth. So you can potentially write an App over this API to do file transfer between iOS devices, (But Gamekit will not work for iOS to Android)

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