How a plist is used

Question

What is the common use of plist? What kind of data we put in them? Is it always a dictionary kind of data we place in them? I believe we store them in either documents, temp or cache directory at run time, is it correct?

Answer 1

Your best source of information comes right from Apple:

http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/PropertyLists/Introduction/Introduction.html

Hope that helps!