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I wanted to get some clear "real world" info on what kinda backend is required when running a newsstand app.
The app i intend to make should have the following features.
Issues, each issue with a bunch of articles.
An Issue can be "Free" or "Paid" depending on how its "Pushed"
Auto subscriptions
Push notifications
Data collection - getting some stats from the users.
I currently have no server, in this case, whats the server requirement? All i want is a print magazine kinda app, essentially a PDF. Is it possible to let Apple host the data with current issues.
Another question besides the server is, how are these Issues packaged? Forexample if its a text file or a pdf?
Any direction would be great
Taking your points in turn:
I currently have no server, in this case, whats the server requirement? All i want is a print magazine kinda app, essentially a PDF. Is it possible to let Apple host the data with current issues.
Apple does not provide hosting for newsstand content. You need your own server for this. It needs to hold the issues, and usually also respond to requests from your app about available and new issues.
Another question besides the server is, how are these Issues packaged? Forexample if its a text file or a pdf?
They are packaged however you like - you tell the newsstand framework which asset(s) need downloading for a particular issue (based on the response youve given about the issues above) Typically you'd bundle it all together in a zip file and unpack / process it on the device when the download is completed.
It's important to note that newsstand is not much more than a framework to enable backgrounded downloads and notifications, and to maintain a library of assets in your app's caches directory. The content and its display is entirely up to you, the developer.
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Nowadays I am thinking about a mobile application (specially for iPhone) and trying to build it for personal use and of course will allow to others too. I want to develop such application, suppose I have iPhone device.
My iPhone get missed call in the absence of me and in that that case suppose I missed some urgent call and I really did not want to miss them. So that my device should have automatically sent messages to them all that I could not receive those calls in due to my absence and message would be like "I am unavailable right now, please call me back or wait for my call".
So all that was the idea of mine I want to develop such mobile application, I would keep each think in my mind like don't send unnecessary reply even not needed. I'll look to the UI part also. That's why I am studying AddressBook frame and all related tutorial, and gathering all required thing to go ahead. But before going ahead on coding part.
Apple doesn't have any public (developer-accessible) API's that allow what you are trying to do (either sending a SMS or a voice mail response back to somebody saying "I'm not available" or "I will be available in 2 hours").
Nor would Apple likely allow an app like this onto the app store if you wanted to sell or make it available to other people aside from your personal device, as apps that interface with phone functionality may violate some countries' privacy laws, not to mention Apple's own privacy guidelines.
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I am very new to web technologies, but have been developing for iphone for 3 years. I need to send a message from a server I rent to my app. Not a "push notification" for the user, but for the app itself. How should I do this?
In general, it's not possible for a server to directly contact an app running on a mobile device (since the device might be behind firewalls or NAT). Instead, the mobile device usually makes a connection to the server, and the server responds with any information available for the device.
This is basically how APNS notifications work, except that Apple has already done most of the infrastructure work for you. Push notifications take very little battery power, and since iOS can batch requests for all apps at once, each app does not need to make its own connection to a server somewhere.
If you implement this yourself, you will need to learn about a technology such as long polling. If you're very new to web technologies, you might consider getting some help making the web server side work.
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I want to create an iPhone app that would restrict incoming calls and SMS from a given phone number.
The phone would not ring or light up the screen. It simply would not do
anything when a call was received from that number. Also, in the recent call list, the number should not show up. When user opens my app, it would show the black list numbers.
Is this possible to develop, and will Apple approve this?
Nope, you can't interfere with calls or SMSes in any way.
There is absolutely no way to do this and still be accepted in the App Store. No API provided by Apple can do anything like this. I don't know what more I can say to answer this.
Maybe Core Telephony would help you take a different approach. Even some things that you can do with that could prevent your app from being accepted into the App Store.
First, I don't think it's even possible to intercept an incoming call. All processes have a priority assigned to them, and phone calls are one of the highest (more so than standard apps), so an app can't interrupt a higher priority process.
Secondly, it's not possible for an app was able to intercept an incoming call (or SMS), as that's a major security flaw. Your app can only access the contents of its sandbox (and some shared directories, such as photos).
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hi i am developing an iphone app for a client who lives outside my country.
The client wants to check out the app every time i complete a functionality in order to note my progress and to suggest necessary changes.
How can give my app to client for testing before the project is completely done .
You can give them ADHOC or testing versions of your app.
It can be relatively easy to do on your own (and the instructions are easily found on Apple's "iOS Provisioning Portal", or there are also some services available from third parties online that make the process even more straighforward. I've heard good things about TestFlight, for example.
I suggest you to create an ad-hoc certificate. Then use xcode to create your archive.
ps: You need the UDIDs of your client iPhones to add the devices to the portal.
You can do it in this way-
1) Add the UDIDs of your client and use the particular profile and certificates to build your app.
2) Create a signed .ipa and .plist files.(Distribute for enterprise option).
3) Simpler way to distribute it as you can put it on the dropbox and attach it in an html file.
4) Send your client the public link of that html page you've put on dropbox.
Hope it helps. :)
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Closed 11 years ago.
I have a Facebook news app. It takes a bit of time to load the webpage in the app. But an app like Washington post loads the page much faster. How do I make my app load faster?
Some things you could do are :
Minify all JavaScript and CSS files.
Ensure all images used are as small as possible ( talking about the size of the file )
Consider condensing your images into a "sprite" file.
Make sure you are not making any unnecessary API calls before the page loads
Refactor your code and review your code logic.
Use google chrome's "network" panel to monitor what resources are being loaded and how long they are taking.
If you are using jQuery - consider loading the libraries from Google's CDN
Saying that "app like Washington post loads the page very quick..." doesn't help anyone - who knows how many developers and how much time they put into their application. All you can do is make it the best that you can with the tools and resources that you have at your disposal...
If you find a specific issue with your application that you see is slowing things down and you still do not know how to improve the load time - come back here and edit your question to contain more information about that specific problem.
Happy coding!