So we're trying to implement Walmart Affiliate API into our project.
We have implemented the product search API and we generate a BuyNow url/button depending on the user's selection but we need to know if and when the user creates a purchase to be able to create and track the order in our system.
The BuyNow url is basically a URL to Walmart store with affiliate ID and the list of products|amounts, we would need some sort of additional field where they could send us a notification of some sort (an event) that the purchase has been created with the list of products and other info.
We can't seem to find the solution in the docs or from their support (they just tell us to check the docs).
Any input on this would be really appreciated as we're a bit stuck now.
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I'm a swift beginner.
I'm trying to create an app that essentially does the following :
Users can sign up and login to the app to receive a new recipe weekly in a pdf (or word doc) format. Once the new recipe of the week is ready to be viewed the users will receive a notification that "recipe of the week is ready for viewing" and they can then login and access the new recipe (as well as recipes from previous weeks).
One admin user will be able to login and upload these pdfs/word doc that contain the recipe and once the upload is complete, the other normal users are notified of this new recipe.
My question :
1) Is it possible to have different users in one app? (ie normal users and admin users). I just want to make the app easy to use for the admin (a friend who is not a tech and who just want to upload recipes) without having to touch the codes or needing me to upload them manually. If its not possible, what could be an alternative way of doing this, so that an ordinary admin user can just upload into the app for other users viewing pleasure?
2) I just thought pdf/word doc might be an easier way for the friend to upload the recipes into app (the recipe might contain pics, tables, graphs etc), if there is a different way of doing this, open to suggestions :) At first I thought maybe putting the recipes on a shared directory and getting Apple's DirectoryMonitor.swift to monitor the directory so that everytime the friend uploads something to the directory, the app will detect this and send notifications to other users....but I thought maybe this isnt the best way to do it, not to mention it might send false notifications (ie when files are removed insteaf of added..)
I do know the basics of Swift, or think I do.So hopefully if you can provide me enough hints (ie framework or SDK or classes to use etc etc) I can use your suggestions to do further research on the subject.
If you need more details or clarifications, please let me know. Thanks!
You must use web services (server) to achieve this stuff.
Design api for login like if admin user login then you return something like this is admin and shows admin screens in your app like upload dishes etc.
If normal user will login then your api (web service) will return you that this is a normal user then show stuff regarding it in your app.
You required web services for uploading and retrieving recipes.
You can easily manage notification if admin upload new recipe to server.
So, it's basically depends on your server and mobile both side of proper management. Your database will take place server side. that's it.
Looking to integrate the branch.io in such a way that the admin gets the deep link at web end where he adds the content. And then he manually post the link to some social media say Twitter,Facebook etc. then user clicks on that link and it will take the user to app or app store.
Is it possible, please guide how to handle this. I am quite confused about branch.io. As far i understood branch.io creates the link send via sms and user clicks and gets redirected to app or app store. Is my requirement valid? How to achieve this please guide. Already spent more than a half day on it.
(Full disclosure: I am on the Branch.io team)
This is actually a very common Branch use case, so it's fairly straight forward to implement.
1. Sign up for Branch
Easy step!
2. Integrate the SDK into your app
This is a fairly simple process that should take less than half an hour, and the latest step-by-step docs for doing this are always at the link above. I won't include the full instructions in this answer because Apple creates new roadblocks fairly regularly, and we often have to make small tweaks to the guide.
After you complete this step, any time a user opens a Branch link associated with your app, either your app will launch (if installed) or that user will be sent to the App Store page to download it.
3. Create your marketing link
The link above takes you to the Branch dashboard. From that page, you can create a new Marketing Link, and use the Deep Link Data section to specify a key/value pair. For example, you can set a key of content and assign it the value mycustomvalue:
When your app launches after a user opens this link, the content : mycustomvalue pair will be magically returned to you.
4. Configure Deep Link Routing and Universal Links.
These methods are what actually call back to the Branch API every time your app opens, returning the content : mycustomvalue pair that you encoded in the link. You can do whatever you like with these values, but here are two common approaches:
Route the user to the content that you specify corresponds to mycustomvalue.
Use the values directly to display something customized (for example, if you encoded content : You've been sent a special invitation!
5. Share the link wherever you like!
The link you created can be put anywhere. Email, Twitter, Facebook, paid Google Ads, etc.
I'm developing an app and I want a user to be able to start typing a song name/artist/whatever and then have a list/drop-down show suggestions on the fly depending on what the user typed (preferably as the user is typing).
I was thinking I would need to use some sort of API which queried the iTunes database for songs available for purchase (or any other large database with song information), but I'm open to using any other source.
Does anybody know of an API I can look into or a framework I can use. I don't need a solution in code or anything, I'm simply asking for a nod in the right direction.
Let me know if you need anymore information. Thanks.
Apple exposes a search API for the iTunes Store. That should help you. https://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/documentation/itunes-store-web-service-search-api.html
Here's a writeup by Apple describing the API: https://www.apple.com/itunes/affiliates/resources/blog/introduction---search-api.html
From there, you just have to hit the endpoint with the appropriate parameters and then display the results. The endpoint is:
https://itunes.apple.com/search?parameterkeyvalue
I going to show my other apps in one app. I know only one way to do that - just hardcoded icons, links and names of other applications, but it extremely inconvenient. Is there are way to reach itunesconnect's list of apps via some API?
You can use the iTunes lookup API to accomplish this. All you need is the developer ID of the account you want to lookup.
Here is a sample query for all of Facebook's apps:
https://itunes.apple.com/lookup?id=284882218&entity=software
The response contains a JSON object for the developer and then for each app, which includes any info you may want to grab such as the name or icon.
I cannot figure out where the mandatory "description" that you enter for in-app products actually appears, besides as a property of the "Bundle" when you check to see what a user has purchased...
You can access it from getSkuDetails(). Given that and that you can add translations I'm guessing it's supposed a way to be able to display a list of products all based on the information that get from the API. In theory your app could display a list of products with all the information the user would want, and you could change them from the play store without updating your app.
As far as I can tell the play store never displays this string. I'm not sure why it's required.