Peer-to-peer Between Desktop And Mobile App

Starting to build an app where we will have a desktop and a mobile client applications. These two apps will exchange messages/info on frequent basis. The idea is not to have any se

Solution 1:

use webrtc ios project, and its what you need https://github.com/gandg/webrtc-ios

Solution 2:

Sockets is what I'd use, assuming the network requirements mentioned above

Solution 3:

Those two devices may or may not be on the same network.

Then you need a server of some form, whether you want one or not. That server may simply be a data broker (see PeerJS) or provide more functionality, but it must exist. That server may be one that you host yourself or be some common cloud provider, but it must exist.