I’m talking about the app, not the act of pushing a thread up in a forum 
I’m curious about the easiest way to set up something like this on iphone / ipod touch. Basically I am looking to share tiny bits of information (like one or two ints) between two devices when they are bumped together.
Would this require iphone advanced and/or some obj-c programming?
Can this be set up to work with both iphone and ipod touch, with and without an internet connection? (bluetooth, etc)
As far as I know the Bump app only uses the accelerometer, http, and corelocation. I think all those are available in iPhone Basic.
Bump does work for iPod touch and iPhone, but requires an internet connect. Bluetooth requires some kind of pairing, and once you’re paired you might as well send the data, no need to require the bump.
The major missing component that you’d need is a web service that collects bumps and figures out which bumps have happened near each other. It would then need to send the data down to the two clients who just bumped.
I kinda wish the Bump guys would release an api, because there are a lot of apps that could benefit from this simple data exchange method.
Great info, thanks.
I’ll do some digging into the web server side of Bump. If I come up with anything substantial I’ll share with the forums. I agree, this method for data sharing would be quite useful for many applications.