Learn iOS/Android: Networking

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Networking is a crucial component for mobile app development. Learning the basics of it from both iOS/Android platform would be handy.

Let’s look into doing some simple fetching from Wikipedia API, i.e. provide a keyword and get the count of it in Wikipedia.

The Wikipedia API

The API is https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php with the following parameter:

“action” =  “query”,
“format” =  “json”,
“list” = “search”,
"srsearch" = <Something to Provide>

https://en.wikipedia.org/w/api.php?action=query&format=json&list=search&srsearch=Networking will generate the below. Note that the totalhits is what we want to get.

{   batchcomplete: "",
    continue: {
       sroffset: 10,
       continue: "-||"
    },
    query: {
       searchinfo: {
          totalhits: 399303
       }, ...

The example App created (both iOS and Android)