I need to retrieve Google Reader subscription list for a user in a iPhone app. I understand that there is no official API available, and I have kinda exhausted Google search already. Out of various options, the closest I have found is [Using JSON Framework on iPhone - HELP!], can anyone share more details - sample code etc.
#WeNeedAnswers> Yes, the OPML format is what I am looking at. But I need to retrieve that directly from my iPhone app.
I'm writing an Objective-C wrapper for iOS based apps using GoogleReader API.
The project, inspired by Pyrfeed, is available at https://github.com/zimok/GoogleReaderAPI-iOS
Note that is an ALPHA, and I'm doing an hard refactoring to make it work Asynchronous and using a delegate protocol.
For now there are some base API methods available. Take a look.
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I want to integrate analytics into my iOS app to collect statistics about my users.
So far I found these two services:
http://www.localytics.com
http://code.google.com/intl/de-DE/mobile/analytics/docs/iphone/
I want a library that's easy to implement. Are there any more out there and what is your experience? What can you recommend?
I've used Flurry in several apps. Quite happy with it. Once the initial setup is done, it's quite easy to log and record metrics about pretty much anything within your app.
You can try heatma.ps to get insides on how people iteract with your applications.
Check out this article, I think it's very useful:
http://www.apptamin.com/blog/app-analytics-tools/
I have found UXCam very useful. It has very easy integration steps and provides user and mobile data you need. It lets you watch playback videos of users using your app and has rule based recording and analytics to filter out unusual session.
I want to develop a native universal app(i.e for iPhone and iPad) for my orgaization.I want to include some of the essential features of the organiztion website into my native app.For obvious reasons i cant store this huge data into iPhone itself.so data will be fetched from the server but application would be a native app.so are there any APIs available to do this?
I always find it's easier to start using sample code, and lucky for you Apple provides a lot of this. Here is the reference library for all kinds of goodies to learn off of and hack your way through: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/navigation/index.html#section=Resource%20Types&topic=Sample%20Code
A few noted ones... (I left out some advanced ones like BonjourWeb Reachability and AdvancedURLConnections but look at those once you gain a little more understanding)
URL Cache: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/URLCache/Introduction/Intro.html
RSS Feed Parser: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/SeismicXML/Introduction/Intro.html
MailComposer: http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/samplecode/MailComposer/Introduction/Intro.html
Also, a couple books you should get to start your journey on iOS (these are two of the best and easy to understand IMO):
http://apress.com/book/view/9781430224594
http://apress.com/book/view/9781430225058
UIWebView will show any web page you point it to.
Maybe do a mixed approach with some stuff built right into the app, and the bigger or frequently changing parts load from the web.
You can use the UIWebView to access your organization's website from inside a native application...
While I agree that you may need to do your research first, the IPhone/Ipad SDK includes a very easy to use XML parser (NSXMLParser). I would suggest you devise a XML web service for retrieving the data from your company's servers and parse it on the ipad/iphone to the presentation you require.
Best of luck, i've found objective-c very rewarding/challenging.
Firstly i'm not a programmer but I am managing to work my way through developing my own iphone app for my photography business. I store all of my photographs with a 3rd party who make their API available for public use. I want to implement this API into my app.
I've spoken with the 3rd party and they have written all of the code on a windows based system and although they say its not tied to a windows platform i'm struggling to see or recognise any Objective-C commands within the API and so don't know where to start. They've also told me that its a SOAP based web service.
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me if I should be using the NSURLConnection method? My main desire would be to generate a UITable view of the photo categories I hold with the 3rd party as is the case with their own iphone app, which i should probably say is for members only so wouldn't suit my needs here.
I would really appreciate some assistance with this as i'd hate to have to result to paying a developer to build the app after falling at the last hurdle.
Many thanks
Steve
At a very basic level, SOAP APIs are just a standard HTTP requests against specific webserver that return XML responses. That third party may have a Windows-specific client-side library to speed up the development for some clients, but since you are developing iPhone app, you can't use that library.
You have two options:
- use NSURLConnection and NSXMLParser and directly talk to their webservers and parse the response yourself;
- look for an iPhone SOAP library you can reuse. Since SOAP is an industry standard, there's nothing that prevents anyone from building iPhone-specific libraries. However, I personally am not aware of particular ones.
Hope that helps. It's not the best answer, but at least it might give you an idea what to look for around.
Update: Quick search for "iPhone SOAP library" revealed the wsdl2objc project, though that one is rather old (not updated since 2009). There are other alternatives, listed in the How to access SOAP services from iPhone SO question.
Apple also has a Web Services Core Framework, but there's not much documentation on using it with iPhone.
Look at a sample app code which has soap specific files here:
http://mtgr8-a3.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/mtgr8-a3/trunk/nvObjects/soap-specific/
In your posting you have mentioned that the 3rd party provided public APIs. If so, can you provide the wsdl? I can covert it to ObjC with SOAP support for you. I am not using wsdl2objC, but something lot better. If it is public API, you don't have to pay me.
What is a strong iPhone framework to start out developing with, besides the SDK from Apple? Are there any that exist to speed up development time?
The biggest framework of this kind is Three20. Facebook and many other companies use this. Three20 is geared towards apps that pull data from the web. It helps with common patterns like a photo viewer or table view backed by web data. Another neat feature is that it has stylesheets, similar in concept to CSS.
Having said all that, some people like it and some do not. There was a brief period where apps using it were rejected from the App Store. Overall, the project looks to have improved since then.
ASIHTTPRequest
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It is suitable performing basic HTTP
requests and interacting with
REST-based services (GET / POST / PUT
/ DELETE). The included
ASIFormDataRequest subclass makes it
easy to submit POST data and files
using multipart/form-data.
Also,
skpsmtpmessage
Excerpt
This code implements a quick class for
sending one off messages via SMTP on
the iPhone
EDIT:
A quick google search gave me this link
There is Mono Touch which enables you to develop using C#.
I would like to enable my iPhone app's data to sync with Google docs. How can this be done? What other sync'ing options do I have (another one I am aware of is EverNote Sync Server)?
try nutdb app for iphone. nutdb will sync every nutdb database with google docs hosted spreadsheet.
It is hard to give a specific answer without more detail, but Google does provide an API that allows some manipulation of document data. The httpriot library is a handy way to simplify access to REST structured web services like this.