How to inject a URL to a service into an iPhone application without hard coding?

Question

I've typically just used constants in the past for things like this, say

#define SERVICE_URL @"http://..."
//...
NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:SERVICE_URL];

But is there a better way to do this without hard coding?

I would prefer not to ask something so trivial, but I tried many, many searches for things like "settings", "constants", "application settings in property lists", and so on, but they all seem to return things for other topics.

Answer 1

Storing these in a PLIST would just be fine. I would have a service object lazy-load this only when you need it to reduce the amount of boilerplate code.