iPhone: random() function gives me the same random number everytime

Question

I am using function random()%x for the generation of a random number, but every time I start the application I see that it creates or generates the same number.

Lik

Answer 1

You'll likely have better luck with arc4random(), you don't need to explicitly seed it and it seems to be a "better" random.

Answer 2

Call srandomdev() first.

srandomdev();
long my_rand = random();