Most apps these days will communicate with the Internet at some point. Purely local apps are great, but communicating with a web service can help transform your app to a truly extraordinary app. There is a huge collection of diverse public web services that your app can make use of. And you can also hook into your own private web service to provide an expanded set of features to your users that you just can’t provide if your app is purely local.
Networking ABCs
When one thinks of the Internet, many things ...
