Can anyone help me with how can I use Azure table storage which is a NoSQL storage, I am aware of how to use blobs but I am unable to find any way to use tables?
There isn't a native Azure iOS SDK that supports Azure Table Storage. Your best bet is to use the REST API.
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I'm having an iOS app to which I need to pull certain data from a 3rd party site. They do not provide an API, rather they provide their PostgreSQL database which is accessible via cloud. How shall I fetch data from the DB in this scenario? I've limited experience in backend technologies to develop a custom API. How to link the database provided by the vendor if I'm planning to go with a custom API?
I am new to Google Cloud Platforms and not quite sure with the whole architecture but what I am trying to achieve is to save some data to Google Cloud from an iOS application and do some analytics work on this data using Google Cloud Products, such as: Dataproc and Datalab. From what I read so far I would need to create a dataset in Google Cloud BigQuery and create a table in it. I have done this using the Google Cloud Web UI but now I want to populate the table from my iOS app. I can't seem to find how to do that.
The most painless route would be to wire up Firebase Analytics and then turn on its daily log export to Big Query, as described by Google in the walkthrough Importing Firebase Analytics Data into BigQuery. Google maintains the entire analytic export stack for you then, seeing as they also maintain Firebase. The downside is that the analytics export happens only daily.
Alternatively, you'd be looking at using the Big Query REST API to upload data, as documented by Google in their Loading Data with a POST Request how-to guide. The iOS tooling for that would be your usual NSURLSession and NSURLDataTask APIs, or whatever abstraction you prefer that's built atop them.
Google does maintain a collection of iOS-native APIs, but unfortunately, Big Query is not included amongst the supported APIs as of May 2017. There are native Big Query clients for Go, C#, and Java, amongst others. So you could use your own API for upload to a server you control, and then use one of those client APIs serverside to implement the actual Big Query integration, if you wished.
I am creating an iOS project that needs to read a SQL database in Azure. I have the database Server location, port, username, and password. I don't need to write to the database, just read it. I am more familiar with Firebase or Parse and have never used Azure. How do I even go about starting this? I tried the sample project that Azure makes for you but I don't have any tables? Do I need this? Any help would be welcome.
Azure Mobile App Service can connect with your existing SQL database
this thread explains the process where you use the existing SQL database. With this option Azure manages most of the inner workings for you.
If you want to build the Rest API from "scratch" using your existing SQL database You have some more options:
Azure API Management allows you to publish API's securely and at scale, A server less Azure Function like the example in this article Rest API with Azure Functions and Azure SQL Database or build a rest API using an Azure Logic App which doesn't require you to write code. You could also use Nodejs or many other tools you just need to evaluate what would work best for your use case.
I'm creating an iOS app using Xamarin Studios for iOS. I can query data from my Azure Table Storage acct fine from a .NET Web application, but I can't find a good example of how to do the same from Xamarin for iOS. I do not want to use AZURE SQL DB. All the examples online are using Mobiles Services and writing to Azure SQL I only want to query a few values from Azure Table Storage. Is there any code samples of how to Read/Write to this?
How about this sample from the head of AzureCAT? http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/wpapps/Use-Table-Storage-in-0b6bcbc7
Folks,
Designing an ios application, and would like to confirm my strategy. There is a database (dynamo/mongo/etc) i am building up, which the app needs to make use of. Is it smart to front the database with an API, and have the ios app authenticate against the api.
This way the app makes calls to the api instead of directly to the database?
Would you suggest node.js be a good place to start crafting the web api with?
Thanks!
Yes, access the data via an API. Whether fancy authentication is needed, depends on what is stored in your database, and what your application is designed to do. Here is one resource (among millions) on API design: http://www.vinaysahni.com/best-practices-for-a-pragmatic-restful-api
Also, here is a popular networking library for iOS: https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking
As for what technology to use, that too open ended and you will get 10 answers for every technology available. This should help though: https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/154519/44948