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Using Plists in other environments


Are Pists limited to be used on a OSX and iOS system?

I am thinking of the architecture of my app and one of many ways to import data into an iPhone app is via a Plist and you can save to it as well.

Now if say that plist is able to be exported away from the app in it's raw format, will it be accesible by say Android or Windows Phone format? Or will it need to be converted?

The way I understand it is that a Plist is a XML format right? I am probably wrong, but that is what I can make up of the file when I look at it.

Cheers


Solution

  • You are right. Plist is actually an xml formatted file with a plist header and can be parsed by any xml parser. Since xml can be used in variety of environments, plist can do the same thing. Just change its suffix to xml and you can do whatever you want.