I'd like to access some Google API's from within an iPhone native app. I'm not a web programmer and have never used AJAX, but I'm guessing I need some kind of bridge between Objective-C and Javascript. Ideally I'd just fire XML at Google and process the result.
I really have no idea were to start.
Has anyone successfully done this, or know of any good resources?
See gdata-objectivec-client : the official Objective-C client library for Google Data API's (it works on the iPhone too.) See http://code.google.com/p/gdata-objectivec-client/.
Unless you mean the AJAX Search API - see http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje - that will provide a JSON response.
If you are doing something like local search then you have to use the google ajax REST api:
http://code.google.com/apis/ajaxsearch/documentation/#fonje
along with a json library. Couldn't post the json tutorial due to the point system here.