Beam It! app for iPhone and iPod touch
Send your contact info wirelessly to another iPhone
Beam It! allows you to wirelessly send (or beam!) your contact information to another iPhone or iPod touch.
Think back… think back to the days of the Newton and the Palm Pilot when you could beam your contact information to another device using the IR transmitter. Nothing fancy. No network to setup. No vCard to email. It was fast, easy and just worked. We loved the simplicity of this and really missed it in our iPhone. So ArcTouch developed Beam It! wireless contact sharing for the iPhone and iPod touch, available for free in the App Store.
iOS App Developers: Free Game Kit Sample Code – Beam It! Source Code
Looking for Game Kit examples and sample code? ArcTouch is sharing the full Beam It! source code with free usage rights to any iOS developer for their apps. You can use any portion of the Game Kit example source code in your own applications (even commercial apps) but:
- You can’t redistribute the entire source code to anyone – you have to link back to us at http://arctouch.com/beamit
- You can’t compile the entire source code and distribute an app like this (with contact beaming functionality) in the App Store under a different name
- If you use any of our code in your app we’d appreciate a mention somewhere on your site or in the application credits area (not really required, but good karma!) – something like “includes peer-to-peer networking code from Beam It! by ArcTouch – http://arctouch.com/beamit“
Download Game Kit Sample Code
iOS Game Kit Peer To Peer Networking Over Bluetooth
Beam It! uses the automatic discovery and spontaneous peer to peer Bluetooth network connectivity of the Game Kit framework found in iOS to find other iPhone or iPod touch devices near you running Beam It! Find the device you want to “beam” to and then choose either your own contact information or any other contact from your Address Book. The card is instantly sent to the recipient and added to their Address Book.
Game Kit peer-to-peer networking can enhance many iOS apps and provide you with a “killer” feature for your customers. Games can be truly multi-player, social networking apps can discover nearby people with similar interests, and GPS geo-location aware applications can harness the wisdom of the crowds. We are iOS Game Kit programmer experts and can help you add peer to peer connectivity to your apps.
