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iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

By : Dimitrios Tavlikos (USD)
Book Image

iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook

By: Dimitrios Tavlikos (USD)

Overview of this book

Table of Contents (22 chapters)
iOS Development with Xamarin Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Introduction


Providing online information to the user is a crucial part of mobile development. In this chapter, we will discuss developing apps that communicate with web services to provide information. We will see how to consume and invoke web services based on SOAP. We will also discuss on how to use REST web services and how to parse the popular JSON data format from a web server. Last but not least, we will take a look at how to use the native iOS APIs for communication and also how to use WCF services.

All examples in this chapter use XSP, a lightweight web server that is shipped with the Mono Framework; so, there is no need to have a live web service up and running online or locally to make use of the provided code.