Re: Looking for a good starting point to create a shared data resource between iOS apps

2013-06-20 Thread Jens Alfke
On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:01 AM, Michael Crawford wrote: > Do localhost (127.0.0.1) TCP sockets work between two different apps? Yes, and there are systems like Audiobus (http://audiob.us) that use it for live audio streaming between apps. The tricky part, I think, is keeping both apps running a

Re: Looking for a good starting point to create a shared data resource between iOS apps

2013-06-20 Thread Michael Crawford
Do you have to be able to get at the data when you're not connected to the Internet? If not, you could store it on an HTTP server. Do shared memory segments work on iOS? I would expect not because of the sandbox, but maybe they do. Do localhost (127.0.0.1) TCP sockets work between two different

Re: Looking for a good starting point to create a shared data resource between iOS apps

2013-06-20 Thread Ben Kennedy
On 2013-06-20, at 10:37 am, Alex Zavatone wrote: > I've reviewed the AppPrefs source on developer.apple.com and am interested in > creating a small set of shared data accessible for all apps on our iOS > devices. I have resorted to Keychain Services for achieving this kind of thing on a micro

Looking for a good starting point to create a shared data resource between iOS apps

2013-06-20 Thread Alex Zavatone
I've reviewed the AppPrefs source on developer.apple.com and am interested in creating a small set of shared data accessible for all apps on our iOS devices. With this in mind, it would be nice to have a little app that has a preference pane that contains some specifics, but have these items als