We have a cross platform (iOS/Android) app that uses Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to talk to a measurement device. We built it using Xamarin on Visual Studio. I am pretty woeful using those tools and most of it is done out-of-house. Also Mac support of VS is going away and Xamarin too. So it would be very cool if Xojo iOS/Android supported BLE sometime in the not too distant future. I see MBS has plug-ins supporting Win/Mac BLE but not much else popped up searching the forums, etc. Imagine there’s a roadmap out there somewhere? Thanks in advance if you have any insights to share.
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You can use MBS for iOS.
Our classes are wrapper for Apple frameworks and work well for our clients.
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I would seriously urge you to do some research before you commit. It is my understanding that the core MS libraries will continue to be maintained by Microsoft, it’s just the IDE that’s no longer being developed. There are alternative IDEs that will allow you to continue developing in the same language.
Another reason I’d recommend researching, is a lot of alternative tools will allow you to build the app and deploy to Mac, iOS and Android from the same project, and in some cases the tool will auto adapt the UI for each target. It’s pretty incredible to watch someone build a native Mac app, and with a couple of clicks it’s running natively on a mobile device, following the mobile app paradigms.