Question

I have been doing some work for a while on an iPhone daily quote app, and the bulk of comments I received are to use a plist to store the quotes, and then setup the code to randomly access a quote each day. I have never really worked with a plist though, and am unsure as to the best way to build a new one filled with quotes. Could I get some guidance on this?

Answer 1

Your plist could look something like this.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE plist PUBLIC "-//Apple//DTD PLIST 1.0//EN" "http://www.apple.com/DTDs/PropertyList-1.0.dtd">
<plist version="1.0">
<array>
    <string>A Quote</string>
    <string>A Quote</string>
    <string>A Quote</string>
</array>
</plist>

You can open a plist into an array like this. You’d then have an array of strings that you could do whatever you want with. Once you have an array I assume you know how to get a random object from it.

[NSArray arrayWithContentsOfFile:@"myPlist.plist"];