I’ve seen a couple programs running in Windows that could access the iPhone and iTouch with access to the photo library and music. What APIs are used for this kind of development?
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I’ve seen a couple programs running in Windows that could access the iPhone and iTouch with access to the photo library and music. What APIs are used for this kind of development?
Checkout Bonjour. It’s a service discovery protocol by Apple and there is a windows implementation available. Apple has released various samples that you can use as a starting point. Checkout this sample game WiTap to get started. And for a broader overview, this tutorial might be good. Once you discover a network device or machine, you can use whatever data format is convenient such as XML, JSON, home-grown, or binary.