Web Services with Cocoa

A talk on web services in Cocoa a long time ago.

Presented at Awesome Inc. Mobile miniConference in Lexington, Kentucky.

Transcript

1. Web Services with Cocoa Sam Soffes
3. Everyone’s doing it You know you want to
4. So what do I do? Locate, eat, enjoy.
5. 1. Connect to server 2. Transfer data 3. Parse data
6. XML - Extensible Markup Language JSON - JavaScript Object Notation YAML - YAML Ain't a Markup Language Plist - Property List
7. What’s a plist? Magical, textual goodness
8. property list files are files that store serialized objects NSString, NSNumber, NSDate, NSData, NSArray, NSDictionary
9. Transfer Who’s the smallest?
10. 13 25 38 50 JSON YAML XML Plist 42 KB 30.3 KB 23.4 KB 22.8 KB Size in KB
11. plist vs JSON What’s the best?
12. 50 100 150 200 JSON Framework Plist Touch JSON 40 45 194 ms seconds
13. Now what? NSURLConnection
14. SSConnection Data transfer made easy
15. Stuff to Check Out My blog: http://samsoff.es My Twitter: http://twitter.com/samsoffes My GitHub: http://github.com/samsoffes