December 2009
Beginner to intermediate
888 pages
23h 33m
English
book
The iPhone™ Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the iPhone 3.0 SDK, Second Edition
by Erica Sadun
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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 ...