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damon patron
4,692 PointsJSON with IOS
i know in the blog reading app that it shows you the JSON and how to connect it to the app to read the info from it and display it, but how do you create the JSON information, how do you create one of you own and read from the any internet site or even multiple web sites
3 Answers
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherA lot of websites provide a REST API which offers the website data in JSON format.
Few examples:
If you have a Wordpress site then you can add a JSON API to it using this plugin: JSON API Plugin and add this method to it: https://gist.github.com/abijlani/5072444
Depending on the server side language of your application you can create a JSON API very easily. Essentially, you take data from the server database and expose it in a JSON format.
Inkeshaf uddin Mohammed
796 Pointshi amit i am using ios xcode 4.1 version i was going through all the modules one by one and i am struck at json parsing video.this is showing me an error that use of undeclared identifier 'NSJSONSerilazation' .can you please help me i am new the ios programming
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou would have to install at least Xcode 4.2 because NSJSONSerialization is a class only available in iOS 5. If you are using Snow Leopard then you can download Xcode 4.2 from here: https://developer.apple.com/downloads
PS. for future reference please create a new post for an issue that is unrelated to the original posting.
damon patron
4,692 Pointsthats great thanks, also i was wondering what format do the videos have to be that are being played on mobile devices
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacheriOS supports the following file formats: H.264, MPEG-4 in .mp4, .m4v, .mov file formats
Fred Lawton
5,904 PointsFred Lawton
5,904 PointsI have a WordPress.com site rather than a WordPress.org site. From my understanding, this means I can't install the plugin.
How can I get my blog data in json format or other format?
Amit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherAmit Bijlani
Treehouse Guest TeacherYou can use services like ifttt or kimonolabs to expose your blog data in JSON format.