Titanium.Network.BonjourBrowser

Use the Titanium.Network.createBonjourBrowser method to create a BonjourBrowser instance.

If your application publishes Bonjour services itself, that service will be discovered by the browser if necessary; be prepared to perform a check if you do not want to list local services as available. Bonjour service browsing is an asynchronous operation, meaning that you should be extremely careful when caching values from the services property returned by the updatedservices event. In particular, if you maintain a local copy of available services and a user tries to connect to one, you should be prepared to handle failures gracefully; the next updatedservices event should provide the new services list, but you should not rely on it being delivered before user input. When a window which uses Bonjour browsing is closed, if you do not want to continue searching, you must call the stop() method.

In iOS 14.0+, to browse services add key NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription and NSBonjourServices to the ios plist section of the tiapp.xml file.

Example:

<ti:app>
  <!-- ... -->
  <ios>
    <plist>
      <dict>
        <!-- Reason to access local network-->
        <key>NSLocalNetworkUsageDescription</key>
        [string](api:Global.String)
            Specify the reason for accessing the local network.
            This appears in the alert dialog when asking the user 
            for permission to access local network.
        </string>
        <!-- List of bonjour service type-->
        <key>NSBonjourServices</key>
        <array>
          [string](api:Global.String)_test._tcp</string>
        <array/>
      </dict>
    </plist>
  </ios>
  <!-- ... -->
</ti:app>