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.
--
Richard Gaskin
Fourth World
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