rjstelling / Hostess.swift

UPDATE 2019: HOSTESS CANNOT READ THE SSID AS OF IOS 13

A Swift implementation of NSHost (Host in Swift) that works on iOS, OS X and tvOS.

Hostess.swift is safe to use in a framework because it does not require a bridging header.

Usage

Carthage

Adding Hostess to your Xcode project using Carthage is very straightforward:

github "rjstelling/Hostess.swift"

Run carthage to download and build the framework.

Cocopods

Installing Hostess using Cocoapods, add the following line to your Podfile:

pod 'Hostess', '~> 1.0'

Then run the pod install command.

Motivation

Hostess.swift was created because NSHost is unavailable on iOS and CFHost does not offer the full functionality of it OS X counterpart.

In addition, those developers hoping for a pure-Swift solution were out of luck without using a bridging header.

Hostess.swift does not use a bridging header, so is safe to use in Framework development. It is 100% Swift and tries to maintain as much type safety as the low level networking C API will allow.

Example

let hostess = Hostess()
let deviceIP = hostess.addresses.first
print("IP: \(deviceIP)") // Will print a dot-separated IP address, e.g: 17.24.2.55

What happend to Host.swift?

Host.swift is still available but is considered end of life and I will not be maintaining it.

With the switch to Swift 3 Apple removed the NS prefix from many Foundation classes. This caused Host to clash with the renamed NSHost.

A new name was required... Hostess was chosen.