Sockets or similar on IOS and Android

[Richard Gaskin]

Rod McCall wrote:

> We are in the process of deciding whether to use LiveCode or another
> platform for mobile development. I gather, well at least on looking at the
> dictionary that sockets are not available on IOS or Android - at least not
> directly. Are there any relatively simple extensions or native components
> that can be used or other workarounds?
>
> We basically need to be able to support secure data connections to/from  a
> server. Based on discussions from a long time ago and also on looking at
> the LiveCode dictionary (at least in 5.5.1) there is no support for sockets.

If you absolutely must use a custom protocol, you may want to contact 
Monte about this as he's evaluating whether to make an external for that.

But if you're taking the more common approach of using a RESTful API 
over HTTP, I believe LiveCode supports both GET and POST on iOS and Android.

For client-server stuff this is enough for me; I only use custom 
protocols for peer-to-peer.

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