Most efficient way to integrate iOS push notifications? - ios

I've heard of using Node.js w/symfony, using mamp/phpMyadmin, etc. Is there any easier way that involves less of a set up process such as a cocoa pod for server communication or something of the sort? Thanks!

You can implement a PHP script that uses a simple class like APNs PHP. It's really simple to use and you'll find full functioning sample code on google.
BUT you will have to write some code.

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Rest Server on iOS device using Swift

I need a way to have an iOS application that can accept a message on a device connected via USB, query a bunch of data about the device and return a response with this data.
I am brand new to iOS and swift development so I need something that is;
Simple
Uses CocoaPods (due to lack of ios support in Swift Package Manager)
NOT require distribution via the App Store (which I believe rules out using APN)
I have tried the following:
BlueSocket: https://github.com/IBM-Swift/BlueSocket
This can probably do the job but is very low level and require lots of work around handling buffer sizes, etc. So a REST solution might be a better
Kitura: https://www.kitura.io/
This seems ideal. However, it only appears to support Swift Package Manager which makes it a big PITA to implement currently (reminder; swift/ios newb here)
CoacoaHttpServer: https://github.com/robbiehanson/CocoaHTTPServer
This looks ok, however I can only find Objective-C examples. Would prefer to have something that includes solid Swift examples (also, the repo doesn't look like it's been updated since 2015)
Are there any other approaches I should consider that I haven't listed here?
You may want to check https://github.com/IBM-Swift/Kitura-HelloWorld-iOS.
I wrote a couple of blog posts about it https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2017/03/13/kitura-ios/, https://developer.ibm.com/swift/2017/12/08/kitura-ios-part2/.
Note that it is a demo repository, I do not know if IBM will support Kitura on iOS (it is supported on Linux).

Using sockets to build real time chat for iOS?

If I wanted to build a real time chat app for iOS using Objective-C, what would be the best way of going about it?
Assuming you've got your server side things setup, you can use Square's Socket Rocket to implement the client side https://github.com/square/SocketRocket
If you're using socket.io at the backend, there are plenty of iOS libraries available for those as well. SIOSocket is one such library.
Maybe I am just lazy, but I do not see a point in building it all from scratch.
There are a plenty of backend providers who will be happy to provide you with ready backend and a library for building your app.
So, you'll just need to connect the solution to your project and make UI according to your needs.
Here are some backend providers you might consider:
ConnectyCube
Firebase
Sendbird
Layer
etc.
They provide different set of features, so I'd recommend checking those they provide first.
This article might be of some help as well.
Some of them like ConnectyCube can provide you also with development services, so you can order UI development according to your mockup design from them too.

Communicate with REST service from ios5 app

I'm building an application that needs to communicate with a REST service.
The application is using ARC so ASIHTTPRequest is NOT an option.
Also RESTKit horribly failed when we tried to use it.
How should we tackle sending the http request? (preferably asynchronicly) and 'storing' the data to be parsed by an XML parser (I don't really need help with that, just need to know how to feed it the data).
You don't need to use ARC everywhere, check out this question and answer, you could just disable ARC for the third party libraries.
Disable Automatic Reference Counting for Some Files
You can use AFNetworking its a very good Lib for REST communication protocol. And you can just disable ARC for AFNetworking as well.

Rails + Flex via sockets?

Can you advice something in building a Rails app that would nicely communicate with Flex via sockets. Currently I found only two ways of communication: Simple HttpRequest, RemoteObject. But I need something "multiplayer" style. I need Flex to talk to sockets and Rails app to grab data from those sockets do some job and push something back to a socket so Flex could read it "on the fly".
Any poor design flow? :) Thx in advance.
Depends on what exactly you need it to do and how responsive you need it. You can look into the Ruby AMF plugin which is a native type for Flash, which makes transferring classes a breeze. The Java implementation has a streaming server built in, not sure if the Ruby version does.
Other than that, if you want it to be really responsive, you could 2 different approaches: an RTMP server (SmartFoxServer, Wowza, Red5, LCDS, etc - all Java based) or you could try to do p2p (Adobe calls it Cirrus - and it's still in pre-production). If you do use the p2p route, you still need a fallback in case something goes funky.

Implementing Thrift Server in iOS

How do you implement the server side in iOS using thrift? Using the thrift wiki, I was able to figure out how to write a client using thrift, but there seems to be no documentation in writing the server. Any example code would be greatly appreciated.
AFAIK You can't have the server in Objective C as only the client bindings are supported. You can however use the C/C++ server bindings. What is your use case? It seems odd to have the server on an iOS device.
Here is the link to the C++ usage docs.

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