iOS Device communication

I am keen to get some apps built that can communicate with other devices/ web etc. i have played around with FTP and can get so far. But what is the best way to do this? We don't have any Serve开发者_运维知识库rs with databases etc, but do have a site that we are currently uploading and downloading files to.

can anyone suggest a good/ better way to get the device to send/ receive files?

thanks

sam

If it's HTTP communication you're wanting to do, the simplest and most powerful tool is ASIHTTPRequest.

HTTP is the protocol your web browser uses to talk to web servers. If you have a site you're storing and downloading files at, it's almost certainly HTTP you're talking to it.

For iOS device to device communication one can use Bump API.

EDIT: I don't know of a generic framework for device <-> server communications, but having built applications that use web services of other providers like Yelp, Yahoo, Google Maps, I would say the way to go for this is to have REST based web services which exchange data in JSON format.