Oh yeah just now i try to connect my friends ipad to my macbook and yes it works i can transfer files from my computer to her ipad, thanks uhmm about wifi and bluetooth? how did it works? like im working before with my imac and i transfer files to my macbook thru bluetooth and it works, but in ipad it doesnt, what is the use of bluetooth of ipad? and wifi thing to share files macbook to ipad? hmmm how does it work?
Well, bluetooth on the iPad is primarily to allow peripherals, like headsets or keyboards. Not everything will work of course (like only some iPad-made controllers).
You can transfer files via the iPad and a Mac/PC using an app (usually a combo of an app on your computer and another app on the iPad/iPhone/iPod Touch). A good example would be the famous
bump.
However, as you know, this is not as "easy" as transferring from a computer to another computer, since there is no such as thing as a "filesystem" on iOS, from the end user point of view.
So you would transfer files and then you would require, an app that can "read" the file format of the file you just transferred (eg. a PDF reader, a PPT reader, a ZIP handler) and supports being called via URIs (just a technical term but it's basically the app registering against the operating system saying "
Hey, everytime the user tries to open a file that ends with XXX extension, then show me up in the list of available apps to open that file".
That and the fact the file would be twice on your device (once on the bump app -example- and once in the PDF app).
If you try and transfer music you can get around playing it, but not through the regular ipod (music) app, and so on.
So in this case, we also have WiFi. When you connect a device, you can tick the option "
Sync with this [device] over Wi-Fi", and then you can sync with iTunes without USB (have in mind this option is a hit and miss, sometimes it fails and it seems Apple has filed to get it straight for all users). The sync usually happens 24 hours after your last sync (via USB in case it's your first time) and if your device is being charged. if you miss a day then it doesn't matter it has the intelligence to just sync whenever the device is in the same Wi-Fi network and is charging and 24 hours already past from the last sync (but like I said, sometimes it just stops working).
With all of the last paragraph written, you can see what I meant by Wi-Fi was only for synching with iTunes (instead of using the "clunky" USB cable).
Now, what if you want to share files? Same thing as with bluetooth, but you just need to find an app that can transfer via Wi-Fi, like
this one (that works only for photos, and since, apps can access your camera roll then this app can put the photos there and then you can open the regular "photos app". This doesn't happen for Movies nor Music, since those are read-only on iOS).
