I have completed the tutorial in
http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/documentation/articles/mobile-services-dotnet-backend-ios-get-started-push/
and able to receive push notification on my iPhone. The question is, if my website is ASP.NET, how can I get my website to talk to mobile services? Or it is not possible at all ?
Yes, you can definitely communicate ASP.Net website with mobile service. Download Nuget Package for Microsoft.WindowsAzure.Mobile.Service and add reference - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.windowsazure.mobile.service.aspx.
Instantiate MobileService instance using App Key and secret. And start consuming the DBs as service. There are lot of tutorials for this - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/mim/archive/2014/02/28/windows-azure-mobiles-services-c-backend-en-version.aspx.
Best way to get used to , is download simple TODO app for .net Backed Mobile service and see how that works.
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I have application on App store. I want to add support for Citrix MDM solution, which will allow end user to install application as in-office app.
Want to know what are the steps I need to perform in application?
I have gone through the details on citrix and got following information in bits and pieces and have some question on top of information
Need to use the MAM SDK in iOS app. From where I should Download the SDK? Is it freely available for POC purpose?
If I integrate the SDK what are the changes I need to do in application? any sample application available?
Need to wrap the iOS application . Is it required if I use MAM SDK?
My application communicate with my server and has user authentication. Do I need to change anything on my server?
Is dummy/temporary server setup of Citrix is available to test my application?
Let me tackle each question.
You'll want to download the MAM SDK from the citrix.com web site. To do so though you'll need to first create a user account. It is free to download.
The changes to your iOS app are fairly straightforward. I won't repeat them here, but in the MAM SDK download you'll find step-by-step instructions on what you need to do. There is a sample app with source code provided.
You no longer need to MDX Wrap your iOS application. That's the older way of getting your apps managed by Citrix Endpoint Management. The new MAM SDK approach replaces that mechanism.
There are no changes needed to your authentication.
There's no dummy server available, but you can request a trial site. Create an account at Citrix Cloud and request a trial of Endpoint Management.
Source: I'm an engineer for the Citrix Endpoint Management product.
I am working on the project where my backend will be in Azure and it will be native iOS and Android application :
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/app-service-mobile/app-service-mobile-ios-how-to-use-client-library
My question is :-
Does Azure provide the service where we don't have to create any webservices to transfer the data between mobile and database on server?
We can handle everything from mobile side ?
NO - and you don't want that. It opens up a massive security hole.
You have to create the App Service and then use Easy Tables. Once the table is created, you can use the model in the client code and just push changes to the service. It will automatically and dynamically change the model on the backend.
We currently have a MVC5 web application that has recently gone live. Much of the business logic is contained within GET and POST controller methods in C# files. A native iOS app is planned for the project and the concern was expressed that we must ensure that the business logic is the same for the web app and the mobile app. I'm asking for anyone with experienced with Azure Mobile Services to elaborate on how we can easily ensure consistency between the web app and the mobile in terms of backend business logic. I see two options as of right now: 1. Create an API project and ensure both the web app and the mobile app call the same endpoints 2. Integrate Azure Mobile Services and ensure that the business logic matches the web app at all times. I'm just looking for guidance.
Thanks
If you are starting work now, I would start work with Azure Mobile Apps rather than Azure Mobile Services. Azure Mobile Apps can provide a web app and a mobile-friendly API for you.
Azure Mobile Apps provides three distinct things on top of Azure Web Apps. The first is a mobile-friendly data-sync capability. This is a RESTful interface that provides access to data from a backend resource. You can use it directly as a REST endpoint - great for your websites, but it is also an OData source. There are clients available for iOS (Objective-C/Swift), Xamarin (C#/.NET) and more coming that use this to provide a sync capability. The addition of a SQLite store provides an offline sync capability that your mobile app can utilize for performance and network efficiency.
The second is authentication that works with the mobile data-sync capability. This can be used across your web and mobile apps and links into enterprise authentication systems (via Azure AD), Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and Microsoft Account. One of the more interesting things you can do is provide personalized results - a user can only access their own records via data-sync. Mobile authentication is different and the SDKs provided in addition will provide that functionality for you.
Finally, there is a pass-through for Notification Hubs - a powerful push notifications system that provides access to APNS (for iOS devices), GCM (for Android devices) and WNS (for Windows-based devices) as well as push capabilities to Chrome and Safari web apps, Baidu and Kindle.
Nothing stops you from doing all this from a standard MVC5 ApiController, but the wrapping of the client-side SDK plus the additional functionality of the table controller reduces the complexity of the code you have to write.
I want to develop an ios app on xcode which provide an web crawler service to the user. So I want to implement a server and implement a php web crawler in it which will server as a backend of my app. I had installed ubuntu server on my pc, is it possible to implement web crawler service on that. If not then which server can I use and how can I connect it with my ios app.
You are missing a question mark AND the only sentence i can figure out to be a question is wether or not it is possible, therefore:
YES
I am using Amazon SNS Service for an iOS application that needs push notifications.
I have figured most of the things, except for the part where I have to register my device tokens.
This is where Amazon talks about it. It can be done manually or with the help of createPlatformEndpoint API which they obviously recommend for bulk uploads. My question is how we can directly register tokens from devices that will install the app later on. The documentation talks about a proxy server which I would want to avoid as of now. Isn't there a direct way of doing this, like where I can directly call a method and push the device token received in the application to my SNS Platform?
This, is a possible duplicate except that it is in reference to Android.
The AWS Mobile SDKs support accessing SNS directly from the mobile device. If you're interested in seeing code demonstrating this on iOS, we included some as a sample we prepared for re:Invent 2013 called Mobile Photo Share.
The important thing to note when accessing SNS directly from the mobile device is that you'll want to restrict the credentials delivered to the device to only those services and resources you'll need to access. You can accomplish this via web identity federation or a token vending machine with appropriately restricted policy.
If you want to learn more about the Mobile Photo Share app, we had two talks at re:Invent about the app and its architecture. The video and slides for those talks are available here:
Building Cloud-Backed Mobile Apps
Integrating Social Login Into Mobile Apps