Chapter 8

Extend Your Apps: Extending Your iOS Application with Libraries

The ability to extend your application's functionality beyond that provided through the iOS itself and the iOS SDK is fairly typical of most operating systems. The Microsoft Windows operating system was built with the ability to extend its functionality through the provision of both static and dynamically linked libraries. And this isn't limited to the Windows operating system. Unix, Linux, and many other operating systems offer the same abilities, and Apple's iOS is no different.

Building on some of the examples of using other options discussed in Chapter 3, this chapter provides some guidance on how to build your own libraries and how to use other libraries that complement ...

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