A new Objective-C library for a new generation of APIs

In 2011, Google introduced a new Objective-C library for Cocoa developers, designed to efficiently support a new generation of APIs on iOS and Mac platforms. This development was necessitated by the shift towards mobile and bandwidth-limited devices, which favored lighter-weight data interchange formats like JSON over XML and AtomPub. The new library supports Google's JSON APIs, enabling efficient use of device resources and simplifying developers' interactions with APIs through high-level Objective-C interfaces and data classes generated from the Google APIs Discovery Service. It also incorporates features like partial response and update protocols, and a batch model for combining multiple queries into a single HTTP request, thereby enhancing application performance. The library aims to maintain the principle that data entrusted to Google remains under user control, and it reflects a broader trend of developing APIs that provide self-descriptive metadata to facilitate easier creation and maintenance of client libraries across various languages.

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