I am planning on making an app on iPhone.
Users can take a photo inApp or upload photos from their photo library(photo stream). Once this is done, anyone else with the app should be able to see these photos IN THE APP. What is the best way to approach this? Do i require a server or is there another way to save photos. Do I have to use iCloud for this? I am under the impression that iCloud is for a single user and not to share information as a server. Should I change this impression of mine?
Thanks!
You'd need to save the photos to a server somewhere. Whenever the app runs on a given device, it'll need to check with the server to see if there are new photos to display.
Your impression of iCloud is correct -- it's for syncing data between a single user's devices, not for sharing data between many users.
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I would like to develop an IOS app to get notification such as title and body from all applications in iPhone. Is it possible to do that?
No it is not. On Android, yes this is possible. But not on Apple. They restrict permissions so that you cannot access that information as a developer.
Every application is given a sandbox, a directory it can use to store data in. If the application needs access to data on the device that isn't located in the application's sandbox, it needs to request the data through a system interface.
App can only read their notifications, other things are possible with Jailbreak.
Learn about app sandbox here
I have downloaded the irate from this link https://github.com/nicklockwood/iRate and its
running fine in my app. Can I come to know whether user actually rated the app in App Store
or not, or just opened the link? because I want to perform an action if user rate the app.
Thanks in Advance.
Once the user is outside of your app - I don't think there is much you can do to track their actions. Unless you had control over the rating systems, which you don't.
How do I obtain the iTunes Store app description from within my iPhone app? I need it to make a "help" screen in my app.
I don't know if this is possible, but I know there are special link to make the user go to reviews of apps and so maybe it's also possibile to get the app description?
You should be able to use the iTunes search APIs:
http://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html
Or you can load the description from a remote site and store it localy. This way you are able to update the information without updating the whole app. You could load an HTML file, store it to the Documents directory and show it within your app with a UIWebView.
I made an app and uploaded it through iTunes Connect, and got accepted and all.. but.
The problem is that I now want the app to be available to other countries, since I initially chose to upload it to only a handful of countries..
is this possible?
Just log into iTunesConnect and add whichever stores you like to your app.
I'm developing a small app allowing users to upload their photos to flickr.
I have tried ObjectiveFlickr framework, but it is too buggy (can compile on device, but not on simulator) and not very convenient for users (user must leave the app, open Safari to go to flickr website to authenticate, then switch back to the app again)
I've seen apps like Hipstamatic doing a really good job on this, it doesn't need to open Safari, everything's done in the app.
Could anyone please suggest some ways to do that?
Thanks a lot
First, I have used ObjectiveFlickr without problems in the iOS Simulator.
Second, ObjectiveFlickr itself does not concern itself with the browser that is used for authentication. It just generates the URL you need to open to let the user authenticate your app. Whether you open this URL in Safari or in a web view inside your app is entirely your choice.