Summary

This chapter introduces basic network-supporting technologies. You have seen how to check for network connectivity, download data, and convert to and from JSON. Here are a few thoughts to take away with you from this chapter:

Image A portion of Apple’s networking support is provided through low-level C-based routines. If you can find a friendly Objective-C wrapper to simplify your programming work, consider using it. The only drawback occurs when you specifically need tight networking control at the most basic level of your application, which is rare. There are superb resources out there. Just search online for them.

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