Is there any bluetooth support in Corona SDK? Or I have to upgrade to Pro version to use native library?
Thanks
Bluetooth is not included in Corona, as far as I know.
The best way to use this is include a library that supports bluetooth, or write your own custom code using the enterprise version of corona
What I am looking for is to use bluetooth to communicate among nearby devices. Is there a cross-platform library(not necessarily a lua library) supports both iOS and Android out there?
Bluetooth is not included in Corona, as far as I know.
The best way to use this is include a library that supports bluetooth, or write your own custom code using the enterprise version of corona
What I am looking for is to use bluetooth to communicate among nearby devices. Is there a cross-platform library(not necessarily a lua library) supports both iOS and Android out there?
is it possible to have bluetooth supported ?
any plan?
You would need to use Corona Enterprise to use bluetooth devices beyond HID game controllers and input devices.
Rob
Hi Rob,
Is this just for the time being? Are there any plans on your side to add a cross-platform Lua layer on top of the Bluetooth API? Perhaps as a plug-in? It would be extremely helpful to have this functionality in a Pro license.
It is not a matter of licensing cost, but switching from Pro to Enterprise means a big change in our development workflow, and I know it will makes things less comfortable for my developers.
In other words, is there an item on the Corona Labs roadmap saying “Bluetooth support in Pro”? 
Best regards,
~Rob.
What Bluetooth support do you want?
Hi Rob,
I just stumbled upon your reply. Hence my late response
I’m looking for Bluetooth support to communicate with an Arduino device (one that has a Bluetooth add-on). I need to send a simple binary (or perhaps ASCII) datastream to it. It does not even have to be 2-way (would be nice though).
I don’t believe adding core bluetooth support is high on our radar. This sounds like something that should be done in Enterprise or CoronaCards. The reason I say this is most Bluetooth connected devices offer an SDK to access their data and there are too many of these to be globally useful and the people who would want to write code at the core bluetooth level is also a small set of developers. We unfortunately don’t have a large enough engineering staff to tackle all the possibilities.
Rob
That’s a bummer. I was hoping it would be one of the easier things to accomplish on your side.
I was reading up on an Arduino project that had a very simple bluetooth (to serial) connection with an Android app written in Python (http://www.instructables.com/id/Androino-Talk-with-an-Arduino-from-your-Android-d/). And that made me hopeful that it would be an easy task in Lua as well.
I’m not sure how CoronaCards could help me here, but that’s something to figure out
Thanks for your input.
~Rob
is it possible to have bluetooth supported ?
any plan?
You would need to use Corona Enterprise to use bluetooth devices beyond HID game controllers and input devices.
Rob
Hi Rob,
Is this just for the time being? Are there any plans on your side to add a cross-platform Lua layer on top of the Bluetooth API? Perhaps as a plug-in? It would be extremely helpful to have this functionality in a Pro license.
It is not a matter of licensing cost, but switching from Pro to Enterprise means a big change in our development workflow, and I know it will makes things less comfortable for my developers.
In other words, is there an item on the Corona Labs roadmap saying “Bluetooth support in Pro”?
Best regards,
~Rob.
What Bluetooth support do you want?
Hi Rob,
I just stumbled upon your reply. Hence my late response
I’m looking for Bluetooth support to communicate with an Arduino device (one that has a Bluetooth add-on). I need to send a simple binary (or perhaps ASCII) datastream to it. It does not even have to be 2-way (would be nice though).
I don’t believe adding core bluetooth support is high on our radar. This sounds like something that should be done in Enterprise or CoronaCards. The reason I say this is most Bluetooth connected devices offer an SDK to access their data and there are too many of these to be globally useful and the people who would want to write code at the core bluetooth level is also a small set of developers. We unfortunately don’t have a large enough engineering staff to tackle all the possibilities.
Rob
That’s a bummer. I was hoping it would be one of the easier things to accomplish on your side.
I was reading up on an Arduino project that had a very simple bluetooth (to serial) connection with an Android app written in Python (http://www.instructables.com/id/Androino-Talk-with-an-Arduino-from-your-Android-d/). And that made me hopeful that it would be an easy task in Lua as well.
I’m not sure how CoronaCards could help me here, but that’s something to figure out
Thanks for your input.
~Rob
I’m looking for a way to use Bluetooth connection as well. This should be a fairly easy plug-in to implement. The protocol to implement is quite simple - you need to register and listen to events or send info via iOS or Android API. There is no need to support specific SDKs. this can be accomplished as additional layer on top of the basic communication protocols.