Bonjour Programming on the iPhone, Part I

Bonjour is Apple's implementation of the Zeroconf protocol, which enables the automatic discovery of computers, devices and services on an IP network.

by Wei-Meng Lee

February 19, 2010

Bonjour is Apple's implementation of the Zeroconf protocol, which enables the automatic discovery of computers, devices and services on an IP network. In this article, you will learn how to implement Bonjour on the iPhone by using the NSNetService class to publish a service. You will also use the NSNetServiceBrowser class to discover services that have been published. In the next article, you will learn how to communicate with another device that you have discovered using TCP/IP.

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