Multipeer Connectivity in iOS 7 Part 2

In the Part 1 of this series we discussed how we can do multipeer connectivity using the BrowserViewController. 

In this blog we will discuss how we can achieve the same programatically, you can also call it programmatic discovery. Doing this Programatically gives us:

1. Flexibility
2. Sending and Accepting Invitations Programmatically.
3. Build a custom UI for discovery.

So if we are going to things manually, than we should know the classes involved in the process. All the classes which are related to the Multipeer Connectivity are available in the "MultipeerConnectivity.framework". 

Add the framework in the project and you can see the list of classes available in the framework. Out of all the classes which will interest you to start doing things are:

• MCNearbyServiceAdvertiser
• MCNearbyServiceBrowser
• MCPeerID
• MCSession

Multipeer Connectivity in iOS 7 Part 1

In this blog we will discuss about how to achieve multi peer connectivity using iOS 7 new Muti peer connectivity Framework. We will do it in multiple parts. In this part we will discuss how to discover the near by devices and connect them using the BrowserViewController.


In the first part we will discuss how can we use the view controller provided by the MultipeerConnectivity.framework. Classes in the Framework are prefixed with MC so from now we will use MC for mentioning the Multipeer Connectivity.

So What are the advantages of using the MC framework? Here are few mentioned in the WWDC sessions.