Question

I am working on an application for the iPhone (iOS 5). What I have to do is create a map by using binary data that I reveive from a server. If the server has bytes available, I read them into a buffer: uint8_t[1024]. Then I parse through this data and create objects (e.g. a path that contains points with longitude and latitude) from it, but those objects are often larger than my buffer. On the simulator this is not a huge problem, because I have enough memory to store them into mutable arrays.

But how do I have to handle this to make my application safe for a device? What array size should I use for iOS devices?

I hope my issue was understandable.

Answer 1

You can use NSMutableArray and store data temporarily and expand its size as needed.

Hope this helps.