August 2010
Beginner to intermediate
432 pages
15h 39m
English
This chapter covers
Internet connectivity is an essential feature of modern life, and the iPhone and iPad are so useful because the iPhone OS allows for easy internet access. In this chapter, we’ll cover the major ways to access the internet from the SDK. You can use a variety of approaches, and we’ll outline their hierarchy in the first section. Later in the chapter, we’ll look at low-level networking, working with URLs, using the UIWebView, parsing XML, using POST, and accessing the social web using various protocols.
Internet programming involves a hierarchy of protocols. At the lowest level ...