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So I know this is a pretty simple question, but I've looked through all of my iOS textbook and can't seem to find out how people do this. I just want to store and edit an array on the internet. That is, let's say all of the data for my application is stored in an NSMutableArray. Ignoring the complications that occur with people editing the array at the same time, how would I allow multiple people to go into my app and then through that app access and edit the NSMutableArray for others to see?
There are a ton of options here, some of which were listed by #Zaph. The most common scenario to share data between a ton of random users is to setup your own server to run an API that you app will be able to communicate with. This is commonly referred to as the "Backend". The solutions here are vast, written in many different languages and sometimes even provided by third parties services. My advice is to pickup a simple, easy to learn server-side setup like Ruby-on-Rails, then deploy test app on Heroku as they provide free accounts to play with.
In addition to the options #coneybeare provided some others include DropBox, Parse and Azure.
Dropbox requires each user so setup an account.
Parse and Azure have rather easy APIs but you will be paying past the free tier.
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I am not at all familiar with swift or iOS developmet (I only have python / SQL experience) so I am sorry if this is a stupid question.
How do iOS developers embed specific data such as a rating or review from other sites into an app that would hypothetically gather this data from several different websites?
So for example, for video game reviews app, the app wants to have the rating or review number from different sites that are all built and formatted completely differently, how does the iOS dev pull this specific data into a SQL table or into the iOS app itself? I imagine that the iOS app would talk to SQL first, but how does the link between the sites and the back-end environment connect?
How have you implemented this before, or how have you seen / heard of this being implemented?
Can this be done without scraping / hurting SEO?
You don't access their databases directly.
This can be achieved using the service API or through Web Scraping.
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I am trying to develop an iOS app (Swift) that requires the use of database. The app will have three different users login and courses. I have 5 database tables that i will have in my app but I am not sure which database platform to use. (I have done research and some people recommend Core data and others say Realm)Thank you for your suggestions.
Depend upon your requirement you need to choose Realm, Sqlite and CoreData database.
For Reference check this link
https://rollout.io/blog/ios-databases-sqllite-core-data-realm/
Since you are just getting started, I would suggest you to try out CoreData and see if it works for your use case. It is object oriented, works well across all Apple platforms and is well integrated with Xcode. Although, please note that this only works for local data. However, if you need (or wish) to store the data on remote server then Firebase would be the way to go. Also this might be preferable if you later wish to do analytics based on the data stored.
Both of these work pretty well and aren't exactly comparable to each other coz they have different purpose. You just need to figure out what's your long term use case and plan it out. For more details check this: https://www.quora.com/How-does-Firebase-compare-to-Core-Data
You can use Firebase if you do not want to setup your own database. You can then assign 'roles' to the users logging in. Check out Firebase authentication documentation.
If you're doing it locally, Core Data is fine.
But if you're doing it remotely (over the Internet, in the cloud), then Firebase is OK.
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I am decent with objective c, and my friends and I want to start developing a social networking application, and we have plans for it and everything almost ready, but the problem is I don't know where to start. I don't know if I should code the structure of the app then write the backend code. I don't really know networking too well, and I'm not sure if I should be using parse or another cite. Basically I wanted to know if anyone had some tips on where to start, or has any guides on social networking app development that would be fantastic. Just so you guys have an idea of what I am trying to do it is kind of like snapchat, but also completely different, but the same type of style and format is what i picture.
Thanks so much.
If it's only you who is developing I would do it step by step, meaning you start with a part of the iOS App and then do the required backend functionality and test it. Afterwards you move on with the next step of the iOS App and then backend again and so on. These steps could be split into the following:
Registration
Login
User profile
Edit profile
Posting stuff
User feed
Adding/following other users
...
If you're working as a team you can split the work, someone is doing backend someone else the App. So you're basically keeping the steps above but you can work on and test them simultaneously.
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I have a news application that i am in the process of building, and of course news updates a lot, so I have to constantly update my stories, so I need a backend of some sort that will let me update my stories over the air without updating the actual app.
I found Parse.com and they have some awesome stuff, but with the way my app is built I don't think I can use them.
I will have to update UIImageviews, UItextviews, and the names of Buttons. With Parse I can only seem to find help regarding the PFQueryTableViewController, which I could use this, but that requires completely recoding and some redesigning of my app to fit into that.
So unless there's another way, I guess I will suck it up and get to work.
So is there a simpler way to do this, or maybe a better service that works more towards what I'm describing?
What you are asking basically is how to do network communication. It sounds like to me you can do what you want with just Parse. You just store the images and text and then call the information from the parse backend when you are loading. From there you can update the UITextViews, button names, and UIImageViews however you want dynamically (using the .text, setTitle, and .image properties and methods respectively). You could also use Amazon S3 for image storage... but the API is less well documented for that.
This is probably your best bet, unless you really want to delve in more deeply and learn how to use NSURLConnection or AFNetworking to communicate with a back-end that you build on a django, ruby, etc. server that you host yourself on a server.
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I want to create a Cocoa Touch library where others will be limited to a finite number deployment builds using said library. However, there should be no limitations on the number of development builds.
I was considering a remote server which generates license-keys each associated with the library and a number of permitted deployment builds on the library.
When the user of the library builds for deployment, I need to check against the keys on the remote server.
Question
Does this seem like a sound approach for what I want to accomplish? If so, how does one check only for deployment builds while preventing the user from tampering with the script/binary that does the checking? If not, what would make it a sound approach?
Imagine the joy and rapture if every library you used was making calls to some random server, affecting your customers, hurting their experience. Making your development of your product a living hell for testing and distribution. Yea, that'd be a hoot.
Get a lawyer, get a solid contract, reserve the right to audit their sales, etc. Companies have had such arrangements for years, and actually abide by them with little more than a piece of paper and couple of signatures.