Beginning iOS Game Center and Game Kit: For iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch

Chapter 5

Matchmaking and Invitations

Beginning with this chapter, and through the next few chapters, we will discuss how to add networking with Game Center, and later Game Kit, into your app or game. Adding networking capability to your app is almost considered essential technology in the modern era. Virtually all modern software has some sort of networking component associated with it today, whether it is talking to an online service to retrieve or post information, or talking directly to a peer device to exchange data.

In the following chapters we will discuss communicating with other peer devices, although not all of our networking configurations will be peer to peer (see Chapter 7 for details on network design).

This chapter, in particular, ...