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The iPhone™ Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone 3.0 SDK, Second Edition
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The iPhone™ Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone 3.0 SDK, Second Edition

by Erica Sadun
December 2009
Beginner to intermediate
888 pages
23h 33m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
Content preview from The iPhone™ Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone 3.0 SDK, Second Edition

12. Making Connections with GameKit and Bonjour

This chapter introduces GameKit, the simplest way to connect two iPhone devices. GameKit is Apple’s new ad hoc networking solution for peer-to-peer connectivity. It’s built on a technology called Bonjour that offers simple, no-configuration communications between devices. With GameKit and Bonjour, you can build games and utilities that move information back and forth between iPhones or between an iPhone and a desktop system. In this chapter, you discover how to use GameKit to build connected applications. You expand GameKit communications to create a cooperative drawing system that transmits both user touches and a selected color. You see how to add GameKit Voice to your applications for walkie-talkie-style ...

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