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You're reading from iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook If you want to develop network applications for iOS and OS X, this is one of the few books written specifically for those systems. With over 50 recipes and in-depth explanations, it's an essential guide.

Product type Paperback

Published in Jan 2014

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781849698085

Length 300 pages

Edition Edition

Languages

Objective-C

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Author (1):

Jon Hoffman

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook

Credits

About the Author

About the Reviewers

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Preface

1. BSD Socket Library FREE CHAPTER

2. Apple Low-level Networking

3. Using Libnet

4. Using Libpcap

5. Apple High-level Networking

6. Bonjour

7. AFNetworking 2.0 Library

8. MKNetworkKit

Index

Introduction

AFNetworking is an amazing network library for iOS and OS X and is incredibly easy to use. It is also very lightweight, modular, and superfast. You can download the AFNetworking library and sample code from the AFNetworking website at https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking.

In November 2013, the AFNetworking framework was updated to Version 2.0. This was a major update and drastically changed the way we used the library within our applications. This chapter will only cover Version 2.0 of the AFNetworking library.

For this chapter, we will be focusing on AFHTTPSessionManager whose class hierarchy goes back up to the NSURLSession class; therefore, the code in this chapter requires a minimum iOS version of 7.0 or a minimum Mac OS X version of 10.9. If your app targets iOS 6.0 or Mac OS X 10.8, you will want to use AFHTTPRequestOperationManager instead of AFHTTPSessionManager. For this chapter, we really needed to choose one of the two methods to focus on, and AFHTTPSessionManager...

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You're reading from iOS and OS X Network Programming Cookbook If you want to develop network applications for iOS and OS X, this is one of the few books written specifically for those systems. With over 50 recipes and in-depth explanations, it's an essential guide.

Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Introduction

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