November 2013
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
19h 3m
English
Game Kit provides an easy-to-interact-with wrapper for communicating with other devices over Bluetooth; however, it does carry with it several important restrictions and limitations.
The most notable restriction is that the developer will have no access to the underlying functionality of Bluetooth, meaning you cannot directly request data from the hardware nor can you connect to devices that do not support Game Kit. If direct Bluetooth access is needed, Core Bluetooth should be used. From a developer standpoint you will also not be able to toggle Bluetooth on and off, although if you attempt to connect through Game Kit with Bluetooth off, the OS will prompt the user to turn it on, and provide a ...
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