January 2012
Beginner
655 pages
16h 35m
English
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Bonjour Programming
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN IN THIS CHAPTER
- How to publish a service on the network using the NSNetService class
- Discovering services on the network using the NSNetServiceBrowser class
- How to resolve the IP addresses of services on the network
Bonjour is Apple's implementation of the Zeroconf protocol, which enables the automatic discovery of computers, devices, and services on an IP network. In this chapter, you will learn how to implement Bonjour on the iOS by using the NSNetService class to publish a service. You will also use the NSNetServiceBrowser class to discover services that have been published.