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You'll need the app to check your server for new content, then reload it if needed. There are numerous ways to do this, depending on the type of data it is.
You'll need the app to check your server for new content, then reload it if needed. There are numerous ways to do this, depending on the type of data it is.
A very simple way would be to host an XML document on a server and have the app check that server for the XML document and load any changes to the data. This is similar to an RSS reader, but you can put any data you want in the XML. There are plenty of tutorials on how to parse through an XML document from the Internet and load it into table views, but you could just load it into your plist instead.
Just do a google search for iPhone RSS reader tutorial, and you should plenty to use as a starting point. Then start a website (Google Sites, Wordpress, Go Daddy) and post your XML document to the site. Then just replace the URL used in the tutorials to get the RSS feed with the URL to your XML. Now you will be parsing through your XML document. Change the code from the tutorial to parse your specific XML structure and do whatever you want with the data. There are a lot of details that go into this, but some google searching should get you there. And for the png's you will probably want to host those files on your site as well, and in your XML document you will have an item that is just a URL to the picture and in your code you will grab the picture at that URL to display it.
Maybe this is not the right thread to ask in, but I have a related question:
If I decide to add/change content through adding items in the documents through iTunes, how do I locate it from the code?
I wanna check for a specific item and if its not added yet, then use default img/file. I dont know in what url i should look and how the commands looks like.
Thanx for the help!
If I decide to add/change content through adding items in the documents through iTunes, how do I locate it from the code?
I wanna check for a specific item and if its not added yet, then use default img/file. I dont know in what url i should look and how the commands looks like.
Thanx for the help!