Find out the various ways you can call web services and parse responses from your iPhone applications to give your applications a huge range of data sources.
by Wei-Meng Lee
November 4, 2009
ommunicating with the outside world is one of the ways to make your iPhone applications interesting and useful. This is especially true today where they are so many web services that provide so much useful functionality. However, consuming web services in iPhone is not for the faint-of-heart. Unlike other development tools (such as Microsoft Visual Studio), Xcode does not have built-in tools that make consuming web services easy. Everything must be done by hand and you need to know how to form the relevant XML messages to send to the web services and then parse the returning XML result.
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ommunicating with the outside world is one of the ways to make your iPhone applications interesting and useful. This is especially true today where they are so many web services that provide so much useful functionality. However, consuming web services in iPhone is not for the faint-of-heart. Unlike other development tools (such as Microsoft Visual Studio), Xcode does not have built-in tools that make consuming web services easy. Everything must be done by hand and you need to know how to form the relevant XML messages to send to the web services and then parse the returning XML result. 
