I'm working on an app that does peer-to-peer communication between Apple devices. As far as I understand, the Network framework is a good choice for this. I have something that works, but I'm curious about the details of how this works and if I might somehow optimize this.
My current understanding is that the best connection I can get between two devices is over AWDL. Is this true? If so, does Network use this? Can I ask it to use it preferentially? What kind of bandwidth and latency should I expect out of this, and are there any drawbacks to using it like power usage or transport limitations?
If both devices are on the same LAN, I assume they can also talk to each other over Wi-Fi (or a wired connection if both are plugged in, I guess). If I use Bonjour service discovery, is this what I will be getting? What does Network do if the LAN network does not perform well? Will it swap the underlying connection if it figures out there is something better?
I am not tied to any particular API or transport protocol, so any input on tradeoffs between ease of implementation/performance/reliability/whatever would be welcome :)