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I have a business app and I would like to give people more content by integrating a podcast or a youtube channel right into my app.

So when a new show episode is available, it would somehow be also available on my app. Is that possible to accomplish?

Thanks, Alex

Genadinik
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  • Would using a webpage element like UIWebView be a possible solution? Or have a look at: http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#documentation/AudioVideo/Conceptual/MultimediaPG/Introduction/Introduction.html – shadowhorst Jun 28 '13 at 13:35
  • @shadowhorst yes I am open to doing it with UIWebView for the iOS apps. How would it be possible? – Genadinik Jun 28 '13 at 13:36
  • You can load local html files with UIWebView - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/747407/using-html-and-local-images-within-uiwebview. Another way would be Apples Multimedia Framework. Have a look at my first comments link. – shadowhorst Jun 28 '13 at 13:40
  • @shadowhorst yeah I get the part of getting it to be HTML files. But how do I actually get latest episodes automatically? Is there a common rss-ish practice for this? I guess every time the app screen would load, I would pull the latest episodes? – Genadinik Jun 28 '13 at 13:42
  • You have to ask some kind of web service for new data and download it, if needed. Youtube has a huge API for their own data, having a look at that might help. – shadowhorst Jun 28 '13 at 13:49
  • [`Apple search API`](http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html#searchexamples) to search content on iTunes including podcasts. The format for the response looks like a JSON. However afaik, other podcasts are RSS feeds so you can access them as webservice and parse using XML parsers in iOS (open source available https://github.com/kballard/feedparser) – Amar Jun 28 '13 at 14:00

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