Send Data/Text From iOS to Desktop App on LAN?

[JOHN PATTEN]

Hi Mike…

This is just thinking off the top of my head…

But I was looking at a strategy that could be duplicated over and over in multiple student(client/iOS) - teacher(server/DesktopAPP) scenarios.

Similar to classroom response systems (clickers), but targeted at more specific curriculum (science, geology, the arts, etc.) A way for students to engage with the content and to tabulate and share the engagement (student responses) as a whole. 

This can obviously be expanded on once you get the iOS and the desktop app speaking to each other…. tracking student responses in database so they can be recorded and evaluated, game development that may return achievement points/badges based on the data they are submitting, etc. etc.

I understand conceptually how some of the client (iOS) to desktop app communication (ftp uploads, http server posts) but those seem so much more involved than the simple socket example demonstrated by Bjornke's example. 

1. I  would like to give this tool to a teacher, let them build their content in the app. 
2. At the start of the lesson, click a button on their app which reports their IP to them witch they then share that with the students who record it in their iOS client. 
3 Then once the students have connected their iOS client to the desktop app, allow the student clients to pull down the teacher created content and respond to the content through the client that is then recorded in the teacher's app.

This sounds very similar to how a web server and browser work, however I was hoping the teacher would not have to worry about setting up and HTTP or FTP, DNS server and could just allow the clients to send data directly to the teacher's app.

This make sense? …  :)

Thank you!


On Dec 19, 2012, at 11:11 AM, Mike Kerner <MikeKerner at roadrunner.com> wrote:

> John,
> Can you be a little more specific about what you are thinking about doing?
> There are numerous ways to skin the cat.  You could have the LC app on the
> teacher's machine act as an http server and the ios apps as clients.  You
> could also have the mobile apps generate files and upload them to dropbox.
> Then if there is not some special functionality required on the teacher's
> app, they could just open their dropbox folder.
> 
> I can think of several other ways to do the same thing, depending on what
> you're thinking about doing.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 19, 2012 at 12:30 PM, tbodine <lvhdgc7 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all.
>> 
>> I'm also in the market for a solution like this.
>> 
>> Monte, would the solution you described work cross platform? (So either Mac
>> or PC on desktop and either iOS or Android devices running the mobile app?)
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Tom Bodine
>> 
>> 
>> 
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