Next Steps

You’ve learned so much to get to this point, but there’s a lot more you can master in the iOS SDK. Where to go from here depends in part where you want to focus your interests. The platform is so large, it’s possible to be a generalist with an interest in many different iOS technologies, but also very rewarding to focus on a few specific areas. We’ll finish up with a look ahead to some directions you might want to go from here.

Networking

Our Twitter example was made much easier with the Social framework, though we did get to make pretty much raw web-service calls to Twitter REST endpoints with the SLRequest class. Of course, many iOS apps call web APIs as their basic functionality and aren’t using the Social framework. For general-purpose ...

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