I have created an iphone app which basically pulls json feeds into my iphone..I have created the JSON file manually and put the jSON file in My FTP Server..as far as updation are concered the client gives me the updation via email or skype which i then update my JSON file that is in the server.what i want to develop is a Backened CMS so that the client is able to handle the maintanenece.i m a noob as far CMS is concerned,which is the best place to start..is wordpress a better..Any advice on how this can be achived would be helpful
Appnx has a pretty neat backend.
iPhone-CMS uses TYPO3 as the backend and can generate native apps.
Please take a look at our JSON-based StorageRoom CMS. We built many mobile apps ourselves and always had the content problem, so one day we created our own CMS.
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I'm new in developing Xamarin app and I'm not a backend developer. I use VS 2017 to develop Mobile App.
Can anyone please give me links how to create a REST API (Json type) to connect with Backend server? I need to retrieve data from my company server.
The app will take many parameters as database name, table name and return a dataset of all the records. I know that the RESTful can be build for specific table but how can I code the RESTful API can take parameters as databases and tables bases on the input on my Xamarin app.
Please help. and how can I display the record in list view on Xamarin app as I did for my Android app. Thank you.
If you have other way to connect with .NET core server.Please tell me solution.
Use Refit, install with nuget. They have very detailed docs and how to use:
https://github.com/reactiveui/refit
You could use Restsharp for your problem: http://restsharp.org/. It's a easy to use and quite popular REST/HTTP Client Libary.
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I have an existing page based on Drupal and going to develop a phoneGap iOS App. That means I just need the information of the existing page and want to fill these data in the new app.
My Question is now, do somebody know weather there is a work around or work flow to do so resp. how can I connect the existing page with another page or in my case phoneGap to get just the data? I'm new with Drupal and phoneGap so maybe you have some pages with information, tutorials or some help how to do this.
Thanks in advance yves
Drupal offers a module called "Services" which will allow you to get data or services from your website. You may need to create your own methods on that module to get the information you want to retrieve.
As for the iOS side, you can retrieve the data via XML-RPC, Rest or whatever communication protocol you choose at the server side, or go all the way with drupal-ios.
https://github.com/workhabitinc/drupal-ios-sdk/
You should start looking for the Services module and play with it. You will have an embedded console on that module to test the methods.
Once you're finish with that, take a look at drupal-ios or go deep with your own implementation via XML-RPC or whatever.
First, Thanks for your help - I greatly appreciate it. The core solution I am trying to figure out is how to display content from a CMS inside of an iOS application. The application I am planning is a company intranet / portal used to display news, alerts, and other content to sales associates at our firm. One approach a friend suggested as build the content in HTML and display in a web view, This does not sound like the best solution too me. How do apps like Facebook, Flipboard, etc display server side content inside the applications.
The application / employee portal will consist of news stories, alerts, documents etc in text form accompanied by images, video, audio. The sales associates will use the application to navigate through the content stories, read, review, etc with all of the nice features of ios, the sliding and flipping of pages and content, etc.
The content and user roles would be managed by a CMS (Joomla, SharePoint, Storage Room, If you know of something better please let me know). The app content would also need to be accessible when offline, what is the best approach for this solution? Is there any existing code bases / libraries that I could leverage for this?
I am having trouble understanding the best process for 1) rendering / displaying the CMS content inside the the App (HTML webview or Another approach?) and 2) How do pull the content, images, video, audio down to the device for offline viewing?
Any ideas you might have will help. If you think there is a starting point set of code, or an example model we might be able to use as a starting point, please let me know.
Thanks You! I greatly appreciate any input.
This is all possible for ios app. you have to made web service for your apps. At the starting when an app is start the data are store in local database like used sqlite or core data in your app. so after that if there is no internet you can stil access your data.
A framework/product like TapLynx or Appcelerator might be a good fit for you. Look at the product demos and showcased apps to see whether they support the kind of thing you want to do.
HTML webviews are a good mechanism for displaying rich content on the device. As to whether you'll display HTML which exists in the CMS, or pull down data and format the HTML on the device, it's really up to you.
I'd go about it creating an API on the server. You can download the data as raw XML or json and parse that content into workable objects. As for how to download pictures and other data, just include the URL string for the picture in the XML / json download.
See the iOS downloading programming guide for details on how to do download data from a server.
Also, as hiren said, you can save the downloaded data using core data.
I am a bit of a newbie when i comes to iphone dev, but was wondering the best way to retrieve informations form a MySQL database.
I have a load of information via a website all stored on a database which changes daily and wanted to build an app that pulled in the information depending on parameters.
What would be the best way to achieve this? Can you grab info from MySQL or would a XML feed be a safer bet?
Build RESTful web services that hide your MySQL database and then consume them from your iPhone app.
I would like my iPhone app to get dynamic content off the net. This content should be managed using a CMS. I would like to know in particular if I can setup Drupal or Joomla or other CMS as a backend for my iphone app to get the content.
Any advice on how this can be achieved would be helpful.
I am completely new to setting up/using CMS.
You can also take a look at StorageRoom, which is a CMS for Mobile Applications.
Disclaimer: I created this myself to scratch my own itch.
Wordpress with the JSON-API plugin is a great solution, especially if you need a web site as well.
You can find a good example here that uses Wordpress and Phonegap to get a basic app going.
If you can access the content in any serialized format (e.g. XML or JSON), it should be no problem to use any CMS as a "backend" for your application.
I'm checking out storageroom, and I'm searching for a similar answer, but I also found osmek to be a bit promising. I might use that one because of the menu templates .Osmek can provide responses in json and xml (and other formats that aren't useful in iphone dev like php, html, and templates)
Feed.Us is another option. I have a series of travel guides iphone apps and use Feed.Us to manage the businesses listed within the apps.
It creates a URL with XML that gets imported into the app.
This seems to be a very promising solution!
Apache Usergrid
I have briefly tried DreamFactory for some trial project but never got around to using it in production. Usergrid seems to be in the right direction in providing a full fledged solution (which can also work for modern web apps)
I'm very curious about Helios (helios.io) and will be trying it out shortly.
At least from the write-up on their site it looks very promising. Its open source, and in beta currently. They also have very easy heroku hosting support.
Helios is an open-source framework that provides essential backend
services for iOS apps, from data synchronization and push
notifications to in-app purchases and passbook integration.
I will update the answer again once I use this for some test project.
you can use any cms or framework to implement this. you need to make a jsonm api to communicate between app and backend server.
For php cms joomla, drupal and wordpress are best.
in frameworks you can use yii, cakephp, laravel or zend
hope this helps..
Also worth taking a look at Cloud CMS:
http://www.cloudcms.com
It's a cloud content management system for mobile and web applications, entirely oriented around JSON and having a fast, fully featured API. Your iOS application could easily grab things, render them, capture data, store it back into the CMS and more. Plus, it gives you a user interface you can drop in front of your business users so that they can create, edit and review things.
Note: I'm one of the developers. That said, worth checking out if for no other reason than for inspiration.
Depending on the data-complexity, perhaps willing a CMS into being a data-store or simple API is overkill when you can leverage file storage services like Google Drive/Apps to GET/POST spreadsheets or other documents in JSON, among other formats.
Is it possible to use Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, etc. as a server space?