I'm having lots of trouble setting up the RestKit API to my app. I wonder if there is any other good API to make RESTful apps? I've just followed lots of tutorials and the github directory of the RestKit API, but I just can't get it up and running. I've seen that Xcode 4 is having problems importing this API.
This is an old question, Nowadays, after 4 years in iOS development I use AFNetworking: https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking
It is quite simple to start, and can be installed using cocoapods.
Since being introduced by Facebook, GraphQL has taken the API world by storm as an alternative to REST APIs. GraphQL fixes many problems that API developers and users have found with RESTful architecture.
REST APIs are obsolete. Fielding defined REST in his 2000 PhD dissertation “Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures” at UC Irvine. Since then it has become the de facto for creating APIs.
The Sign in with Apple REST API is a web service that connects you to Apple's authentication servers. Use this service to generate and validate the identity tokens used to verify a user's identity. To sign in from a web app or other platform, like Android, use Sign in with Apple JS.
The most common open API architectures fall into two categories: REST APIs and SOAP APIs. SOAP and REST offer different methods to invoke a web service. SOAP-based APIs typically use XML as a data exchange format, while RESTful APIs typically use JSON back and forth.
I use ASIHTTPRequest for RESTful client stuff in my apps.
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