Question

Is it possible to create JSON files from text?

if so, is there a preferred way to do this on iOS?

Thanks

Answer 1

There’s nothing stopping you from persisting JSON objects to files but there’s not really “JSON files” in the sense that there’s XLS files.

JSON is a way of way of encoding objects into a textual format for lightweight data interchange.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON

You use JSON to turn objects into strings, typically transport over the wire between potentially disparate systems and then transform back to objects.

In iOS, there are may APIs to do this (which Ryan pointed out above):

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/286087/best-json-library-to-use-when-developing-an-iphone-application

If you wanted to save objects in JSON format to files, you can certainly do that:

Write a file on iOS