Is this possible to authentice iOS Mobile App with Windows Azure Active Directory(AD) with utilizing mobile web services of Azure.
Basically iOS App should be login with only the Windows Azure Active Directory(AD)
I found one third party library
https://github.com/MSOpenTech/azure-activedirectory-library-for-ios/
but not sure whether this is secured or should be used or not
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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 an iOS developer & currently working on Azure Mobile service. I am using Azure iOS client SDK. I have query on concurrency model in Azure as I found below links
Link 1
Link 2
But I am unable to understand how I should manage concurrency from iOS app as I am not using SQLite for database.
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 am currently involved in defining strategy for a large future project, where it is proposed to developed native mobile phone applications that would integrate with SAP middleware.
I would like to understand how one would develop a native iOS mobile app that would communicate with SAP NetWeaver, using Odata?
Regards.
You can create server side OData service and communicate with it from mobile app by http/https protocol.
OData supports both JSON and XML formats.
If your application is rather simple - common BSP application can be used. It works faster but a little bit harder to develop complex application.
Odata is an open standard, there are libraries that you could use in your ios project hence you could consume the Odata service in your app. It is just another HTTP/HTTPS request-response.
SAP gateway expose Odata service
Consume that in the app using open source libraries available.
Another option:
Use SAP mobile platform 3 (a product from SAP to mobilise enterprise) to develop native and hybrid apps. It supports all major mobile platforms like iOS, windows and android.
It has an SDK which provides all enterprise level features to your app - offline support, SSO, different authentication mechanisms like LDAP and 509 certificate etc.
SAP also provides cloud based solution as well it is called Hana cloud platform mobile services.
I have a appcelerator titanium app, and I would like to use the same users and password for other apps, not related to appcelerator ACS or titanium, the question is: can I use appcelerator ACS as oauth for other applications?
I'm not familiar with ACS to much but from documentation I can find below:
it is not proffered as the ACS mention in its documentation
Your app must prove that it is allowed to talk to ACS. This keeps your
data secure by preventing anyone from making requests to ACS that
impersonate your app.
but you can create new app with new client-id as in ACS mention that:
You can integrate ACS into your application using the REST API, the
Titanium SDK, or the ACS native iOS and Android SDKs.
http://docs.appcelerator.com/cloud/latest/#!/guide/acs_quickstart
http://docs.appcelerator.com/cloud/latest/#!/guide/acs_authentication