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CBCentralManager

An object that scans for, discovers, connects to, and manages peripherals.

Declaration

class CBCentralManager

Overview

CBCentralManager objects manage discovered or connected remote peripheral devices (represented by CBPeripheral objects), including scanning for, discovering, and connecting to advertising peripherals.

Before calling the CBCentralManager methods, set the state of the central manager object to powered on, as indicated by the CBCentralManagerState.poweredOn constant. This state indicates that the central device (your iPhone or iPad, for instance) supports Bluetooth low energy and that Bluetooth is on and available for use.

Topics

Initializing a Central Manager

Establishing or Canceling Connections with Peripherals

Retrieving Lists of Peripherals

Scanning or Stopping Scans of Peripherals

Inspecting Feature Support

Monitoring Properties

Receiving Connection Events

Deprecated

See Also

Centrals