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

Benefits of the Peer Picker

With the introduction of iOS 4.0, Game Kit networking has become generally neglected by the developer community. This is a great injustice, as Game Kit remains an extraordinarily helpful tool for iOS developers. Game Kit remains the easiest way to add peer-to-peer networking to an iOS app.

In most of the multiplayer type apps that I have developed, I have implemented both systems of iOS networking. Game Center networking and Game Kit networking both have different strengths and weaknesses, and it is normally easier to provide both to your users than to be forced into a corner by the limitations of one. The following offer some reasons for including both.

• Your users might not have access to an outside network connection, ...