ios android connection

[pfieffer]

Hi there.

I have gone through some of the documentation for nearby and it was mentioned:

Under the hood, the API uses a combination of Bluetooth, BLE, and Wi-Fi technologies, leveraging the strengths of each while circumventing their respective weaknesses. This effectively abstracts the vagaries of Bluetooth and Wi-Fi across a range of platforms and OS versions, allowing developers to focus on the features that matter to their users.

across a range of platforms and OS versions, this in particular has led me to believe that android to ios connection is possible.

The discord application (though it is built on ReactNative, thats what they say on their blog) can seemlessly discover nearby ios from android device and vice versa, to be able to add discover and add friend.
They have a blog post pointing to the Nearby Connections API. Please see: https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/360014894392--Mobile-Nearby-Friends

Now me and my team have fiddled around with the sample apps and we could not discover and connect between ios and android devices.
We have tried setting the service id and connection mode to the same but with no success.

There are a few discussions on Nearby Messaging api which seems to have found a solution to android ios connection, but nearby messages is getting deprecated in December of 2023.

Can someone please point us towards how to achieve discovering nearby devices and making a connection across android and ios?

Thank you

[KRA2008]

https://developers.google.com/nearby/connections/swift/get-started