iPhone Programming - Reading/Writing .plist Files
Why Stack Overflow recommends it
Stack Overflow users link it when someone asks for a video walkthrough of reading and writing plist files in iOS.
Recommended by 3 people across 3 different months, 2012 to 2014.
What it is
A short 2011 Xcode tutorial by MilmersXcode showing how to read and write a .plist file in an iPhone app using Objective-C. It walks through building a documents-directory file path, writing an NSArray to disk and reading it back, triggered from a button.
What people said
Recommends Sbhklr · 2012-01 · Stack Overflow · on “is there a Video for writing to plist in iOS?”
There are plenty of such tutorials on YouTube. Have a look at this one: iPhone Programming - Reading/Writing .plist Files [this video]
Recommends Sharon · 2012-07 · Stack Overflow · on “How do I upload a plist to a godaddy server on iPhone SDK?”
I noticed in this video around 6:25 he mentions how to specify your user name and password while writing a plist. [this video] Hope that is what you are looking for.
Recommends MB_iOSDeveloper · 2014-06 · Stack Overflow · on “Can not read plist file?”
I have a annoying error which came suddenly. I wanted to read a .plist file. However it is currently impossible. It worked yesterday, even 3 hours ago and then my app crashed on the simulator and on the device. I have listened to this tutorial (twice) (and others): [this video] Googled many stackoverflow solutions (beside these two...): Plist cannot be read ... What am I doing wrong? [LINK] Can't read from plist [LINK] And still I did not get one step closer to a soultion. NSError *error; NSArray *path = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString *documentDirectory = [path objectAtIndex:0]; documentDirectory = [documentDirectory stringByAppendingPath
Cites Midhun MP · 2012-08 · Stack Overflow · on “How to change plist file”
We cannot directly write to our application bundle, so we need to copy our plist to our application's document directory for this use: NSError *error; NSArray *paths = NSSearchPathForDirectoriesInDomains(NSDocumentDirectory, NSUserDomainMask, YES); NSString *documentsDirectory = [paths objectAtIndex:0]; NSString *path = [documentsDirectory stringByAppendingPathComponent:@"yourPlistName.plist"]; NSFileManager *fileManager = [NSFileManager defaultManager]; if (![fileManager fileExistsAtPath: path]) { NSString *bundle = [[NSBundle mainBundle] pathForResource:@”yourPlistName” ofType:@”plist”]; [fileManager copyItemAtPath:bundle toPath: path error:&error]; } Then for editing the plist use: NSArra