For whatever reason, the excellent photonsoftap.meteor.com hasn’t worked on any iOS devices I’ve tested it on. Because of this, I’ve been working on a react-native app for the past week to implement something very similar in a cross-platform manner. I’ve therefore learned quite a bit about the softap setup process and I have to say that by far, the biggest hiccup is the lack of a way to verify user-entered credentials. Is there any effort under way to improve this process both for the user and us developers? Using heuristics to determine successful/unsuccessful connection reliably and accurately while keeping the user happy and well-informed seems nigh impossible.
For comparison, the Ackme Wiconnect module provides an API call to verify the entered credentials before locking them in and attempting a connection:
http://wiconnect.ack.me/2.3/commands#network_verify
Could something like this be provided to short circuit the failure?