Using TinyPic.com (or another site) to store user's images in my iPhone app.

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Using TinyPic.com (or another site) to store user's images in my iPhone app.

I'm writing an iphone app and don't really have the resources to rent sql server space to store user's pictures.

Is there another way? Could a site like TinyPic.com be used?

What objective-c code could I use to send/store a picture there... and then later retrieve it as needed?

You can have a list of sites for this purpose: imageshack, yfrog, tinypic. You have to choose carefully because each site has different usage allowance. Some sites allow you to upload a big image, some site don't. Some sites allow you to upload an infinite number of images, some don't.

About the code, usually, they have an API that you have to call to do the job. And for the return, they have a nice XML-Structured format that you have to parse. Look at Imageshack API for an example. My current project uses this

vodkhang 2010-09-28 02:27:15

None of the sites show even a hint of "how to do this in C or Objective-C" or "on the iphone".

Patty 2010-09-28 03:35:20

Which site would you suggest for "most traffic, most images, most dependable"? Sounds like you favor imageShack?

Patty 2010-09-28 03:36:17

Ops, you don't know how to call a http request and pass parameter, do you? You need to make a http request supply the parameter like the API said. You need to look up NSMutableURLRequest and NSUrlConnection .

vodkhang 2010-09-28 03:57:36

Here is some limitation of imageshack: Images: less than 1.5MB.Video: less than 50MB.Files are deleted after 1 year of no access.Each hot-linked image is limited to a bandwith of less than 300MB per hour.

vodkhang 2010-09-28 04:03:20

My colleague decided to choose this service, then we went. I didn't do a whole research on that. I can say that imageshack is ok but I don't prefer it over other services

vodkhang 2010-09-28 04:04:08

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