How can i use web services and also connect to the server in iphone?
I can only offer some references here you might have probably Googled them yourself:
Toolkit for Web Service-Backed iPhone Apps
iPhone Programming Tutorial – Intro to SOAP Web Services
Creating an iPhone-based Web Service
Googled Results
I have heard good things about using JSON especially TouchJSON.
Also, here is a tutorial from MobileOrchard that uses JSON (but not TouchJSON).
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I want to create iphone native app. which will use web service.Could any one tell me how many languages is supported by apple for web service. And which the best in performance ??
Your web service implementation is completely independent from your iPhone native app. Apple does not care what language you implement your web service in.
However, your web service client (i.e.: your iPhone app) must be written in Objective-C.
Simple Object Access Protocol is a webservice multi-platform language, and its the default for web services.
In a SOA these problems are addressed. Because the need to communicate with services that are not in the same programming language is something that happens normally. And there appears the SOAP protocol to normalize it.
This is independent from your iPhone.
Greetings,
I am thinking of getting an application in iPhone to establish connection with a application server to collects its contact details and then sync it with our address book.
Anyone could direct me in the direction i have to take to achieve this target. And the things i have to look up.
You must, first of all, start with a XML-RPC library for iPhone. That is not implemented yet in the iOS core sdk. A good starting point is the open source application developed from wordpress that contain a xml-rpc library. Then you can play with the method from within this application, calling specific opener methods.
This is the link to download wordpress for iOS: http://ios.wordpress.org/development/
Someone is working on a mobile client for OpenERP, but I don't know if there are any plans for iPhone specifically.
If you want to build your own, I suggest you look at the OpenERP developer book's section on web services. You can send XML-RPC requests to the server to do anything the regular client can do. The XML-RPC layer is basically a wrapper around the ORM methods.
I've been digging around for this one. I understand that there two possible ways to develop for the iPhone.
via web kit frameworks, such as jqtouch and iwebkit, and
using the iPhone's api
I notice quite a few people using web kit frameworks, especially jqtouch. What are the benefits of using a webkit framework versus using the iPhone's api directly?
One point that springs into mind, is the fact that using a web kit framework makes it accessible through other smart phones? Not just the iPhone?
Are there any differences in terms of graphic enhancements? i.e. will transitions or animation look different?
I am a web developer by heart. It will be an advantage if I can develop an iPhone app with knowledge that I already know, that being the Ruby on Rails web framework.
I have also read this slideshow, which seems pretty detailed on various web kits.
Your suggestions / feedback is appreciated.
Just came across the following by Oreilly which seems to answer a good detail of differences between a native and web app development for the iPhone.
Closest thing I've found is How to incorporate WebSockets into a Cocoa application, but the answers only pointed to an outdated library.
Does anyone know about a WebSockets library compatible with iOS 4.x?
I've also read about Pusherapp, and, as good as the service could be, I would prefer to use my own WebSockets server.
You can check out the UnitT Web Socket Client. It is intended for use in iOS apps using Objective-C. It works with both ws & wss.
I am the author and have been using it in some of my projects with success. Let me know if you run into any trouble and I will do what I can to help.
Found this post in a google search for iOS WebSockets and wanted to put an updated answer.
Anyways, Zimt and Unitt's client don't support the latest standard (at the time of writing this).
(disclaimer: author of SocketRocket)
We just released a new library that has no external dependencies, supports RFC 6455 completely, and works with iOS 4.x+.
It's called SocketRocket and can be found here
You could make a web application using one of several Cocoa-like libraries and then convert it to a native app using something like PhoneGap/Apache Cordova.
Cappuccino - Make webapps using Objective-J and Cocoa-like API.
WebSockets for Cappuccino
SproutCore - Apple's Cocoa for the web
Toth - a multi-user SproutCore library that uses WebSockets.
For the server side there are lots of options. Just search for "websockets server" on github.com.
I created a package for iOS/Objective-C and TLS taking into account the new iOS13 TLS restrictions. It works with a NodeJS TLS server how I use it. Hope it helps, feel free to contribute.
https://github.com/eamonwhiter73/IOSObjCWebSockets
I'm working on an interface for an existing web application that will allow iPhone and other mobile clients.
I have started implement a JSON API and I need to give some detailed specificaitions for the App to an iPhone developer.
What I am curious about is whether other developers are using session data in their JSON / mobile client communications.
Do the common url grabbing libraries of iPhones (and other mobile devices) mimic a browser's cookie handling?
Can someone suggest what libraries might be used to achieve this? Are there any online tutorials or blog entries that outline state based web connectivity in an iPhone app?
I've used ASIHTTP (http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/) and JSONFramework (http://code.google.com/p/json-framework/) to achieve this.
Both very good libraries that are easy to work with.