can anyone help me to make the iphone app which can browse the files of the computer which is available on local network?
In short, you'll have to create a server on the local machine that is accessed from the iphone. On the iphone side, you'll have to create the client that accesses this server. Use google to see if you can find some examples of directory servers and see if you can adapt them to your needs.
This is a huge topic, one which cannot be answered here in 100 (or probably even 1000) words.
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Think something like openLDAP
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the app that i'm developing, needs to interact with a server, to accomplish some operations: save user's data, retrieve data about other users, services and so on...
before paying to rent some space on a server, i'd like to test my app making it interact with a server located on my computer, simulating a real a LAMP server as a localhost.
did you ever tried to do the same? can you suggest me a LAMP server that i can use locally?
do you suggest any other solution in place of the one i'm seeking?
thanks for help
While the server is running make your requests to your own IP address. I'm fairly confident this will work while you are using the simulator, and likely it will also work from an app.
In terms of finding LAMP server software for the mac... you should check out MAMP which allows you to simulate a server on your mac.
I am writing an iPhone application and would like to sync data over Wi-Fi between the iPhone and a complementary Mac application which I will also be writing (much like what is accomplished with Things and 1Password). To provide specific context, I need to be able to upload a CSV file to the iPhone application, have the ability to edit the data on the iPhone, and then re-download that file to the computer.
I am familiar enough with the mechanics of parsing and editing the CSV file once on the iPhone, but I am unsure how to approach the Wi-Fi sync between the iPhone and Mac. Obviously this is possible, since other applications have achieved the same thing, but do I need to setup some kind of server on the iPhone (which the Mac can talk to) or maybe a server in the Mac-side application (which the iPhone can talk to).
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
In my apps, I use CocoaHTTPServer to get local info into and off of the phone. You run the server and out-of-the-box, it indexes all the files in the documents directory.
To do what you want, you will need to edit the code to return some other kind of data format (xml probably is the easiest) the call this from inside your app to get that data. CocoaHTTPServer easily take POST right out of the box too, so you can post an xml response as well.
After thinking about it, CocoaHTTPServer is best run on the computer side behind the scenes. the iphone can then send info to the computer where handling the code should be easier and you have more options.
On top of this you will want to look into Bonjour, it will allow the computer and the iphone to discover each other without too much difficulty. (ie by advertising their info on the network)
I have made Iphone applicatio. In my application whatever data i have recorded; all that data i want to export to the Computer using the application.
Is there any way available to sent data to computer using wifi using developed application? Can we use Bluetooth or Http connection to send application from device to the PC?
if we can than how can we manage the bluetooth and how to use it without Jailbreaking?
if any body has any solution,please give any code or any link or any other solution which would appreciated.
Thanks,
Mishal
Your best bet is to send the data using HTTP or FTP to a server, which could be your PC. Would that work for you?
Here's one way to do it.
Here's another.
And one for FTP.
I dont think you have an option to gain control of a computer and toss a file in there from within an iPhone app. You cannot do it over the usb cord, you cannot mount the drive unless you roll your own fs mounter (pretty difficult), and you cannot push a file over html or something and have it magically appear. The user would have to interact at some point.
Many times, this is done over html. In my apps, I use CocoaHTTPServer to get local info into and off of the phone. You run the server and out-of-the-box, it indexes all the files in the documents directory for you to download from any browser on the same wifi network. Give it a shot as it is a easy to implement solution for getting large files off the phone without having to resort to something clunky like email
The iPhone settings have an IP address for the device when it is connected to a wifi network. Is it possible to get this IP address and establish a connection between a desktop computer (on the same network) and the iPhone?
I want to be able to transfer files between the iPhone and the desktop computer. Some apps like the "Files" and "FourTrack" apps do this.
Can someone please guide me to where I can start?
Thanks a lot for any headsup
Google for SIOCGIFCONF and you'll find a bunch of example code in C for getting all your IP addresses. Once you've enumerated your devices, on iPhone they are always in the following order: Loopback, WiFi, WAN.
Once you have that, you can implement a web server with CocoaHttpServer pretty easily. You'll have to hack it to add directory listings and the like, but it's not too hard. It's not trivial, but it's not too bad.
I think you already answered your question... you have to download an app to do this. I use "Air Sharing" and it works fine.
For example, how would I write a program like senuti? Are there any libraries I can use for this? It would be ideal if I could do this in Python or .Net, but I'm open to other things as well.
There are three things you can do:
Add some code to your iPhone application which acts as some kind of server (http, SMB, etc). Then your mac/windows full client application can connect to this server over wifi. This is safe and reliable, but unfortunately the app will have to be running on the iPhone at the time of sync.
Sync to the "cloud". EG: Have your iPhone app save some data to a web server on the internet (you could use amazon EC2, windows Azure, or even just a PHP script running on a cheap hosting account), and then have your windows/mac client also connect to this web server to retrieve the data. This is the most user-friendly, but it requires you to pay for the hosting of the web server, and will be unsuitable for large amounts of data
Violate the EULA and try to reverse engineer the way iTunes communicates with the iPhone.
This is how senuti works, but I wouldn't recommend it, as they're constantly having to play catchup with apple changing the format underneath them, and they are probably exposed to some kind of legal action, if apple ever bothered to sue them.
i believe Version 3.0 will resolve this as it allows you to program apps to the USB interface. check out some of the documentation for that in the External Accessory framework.
it would still require the app to be open, so essentially would mean two syncs (or more if you have multiple apps)
There is no legal / official way of doing this. Creating a program that would sync with an iPhone would violate the EULA you agree to when using the iPhone and iTunes.
Not only is it illegal, but it's also impossible to do this reliably. Apple could break the method at any time without any notice, and it would pretty much be a cat-and-mouse game.
I only know of one application that something of the kind, and it is the iToner application which synchronizes ringtones.