9IOS-TARGETED WEB APPS
Since the introduction of third-party developer APIs for iOS, the Web has been an important component of iOS applications. Originally, the APIs were entirely web-based. While this potentially made life easier for people with no Objective-C or Cocoa experience, it severely limited what non-Apple applications could do and relegated them to a second-class status. They had no access to native capabilities of the phone, such as geolocation, and were available only within the browser instead of on the home screen.
While things have changed drastically since that time, the need to integrate with web applications from iOS has not. In this chapter, you’ll take a closer look at the connections between native iOS applications and ...
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