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I Was wondering if anyone can tell me if this is possible. So.. I am just about to create my first iPhone app. I have my idea and everything is sketched out etc.. but then today I realised that I had not thought about all the features and their implementation properly. This could soon be a no win situation, so please help
Is it possible to create a username and password automatically upon first app opening? so the username and password is to be generated on the fly and then submitted to a web database.
I would also like it so that the user of the app could change this manually if they wished. but also so that if they viewed it on their other iDevices they could sync it up.
Is that possible?
yes, you could generate a random string to sign up a user for first time (backdoor guest account sort of speak), I've done it with one of my apps before (temporarily). However, you should consider baking a guest account feature into your remote server.
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Currently, I'm using firebase to store the users in the database but I wanted to add a link to each specific id so the user is able to copy their profile link and send it to a friend if they have the app or not, I read a little bit about dynamic links from the firebase as well, but still lacking the idea of how to connect a users profile to a deep link.
Wrap user id (or profile id) somehow like: link.co/user_id
In dynamic link handler method you have to get user id (or profile id) from link and send it to ProfileViewController, then you simply open it as you always do from other place in application.
There's good article to read how exactly you will do this: https://www.yudiz.com/deep-linking-in-ios-using-firebase/
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I'm developing an online platform, where one type of users (User Type 2) create a profile in an web-app and submit data into the web-app. Another user type (User Type 1) is then able to view this data from an iOS-app. See image below for overview.
I want the User Type 1 to be able to (without logging into instagram) watch User Type 2s Instagram Images.
I have been playing around with the Instagram-API, registered as a developer, and registered a client app, which is now in sandbox mode. But I find it a bit hard to get started, and a grasp about which user types need to be authenticate.
Is it possible to make the iOS-app Authenticate with the API in the background, and then pull images from any instagram user?
If so, what is the simplest way to get started at pulling images down to the iOS-app? Maybe you have some good suggestions or tutorials...
Technically, you don't need to authenticate to get a user's photos. You might need it for the iOS SDK, but if you want to use HTTP calls you can get a JSON blob of all the photos by just adding /media/ after the user address, like so: https://www.instagram.com/dnlrsn/media/.
Obviously, this doesn't allow for interacting with the images, but from what I understood from your question, you don't need that.
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I am building an app that connects to a server at the back end that supports multiple users.Similar in this respect to Facebook etc. On the web version, users log in and then their userid allows them to access all their content. As with any website, you can log out as one user and log on as another.
For the app, is it customary or best practice to allow only one user for an installed app? In other words if someone has signed up once for an app, is it best practice to only allow that one userid and password to sign on and not let someone else come along and log in as a different user? Or is it customary to allow multiple people to log in and out as with website.
If just one user is allowed, I only have to support one profile on the app and one set of data locally so this would obviously be easier but just want to conform to normal practice.
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In general, if you are able to log in you should be able to log out as well. This is true for apps and web. It is a little more complex but not too much.
Log out can be put in a settings section and when that is clicked you destroy all of the local caches, take them back to the log in screen, and it essentially becomes a freshly installed app.
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i just started coding iPhone apps on xcode and i was curious what is the best database to use? For example a database to store names emails etc, to make a sign up and login page.
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If you are talking about storing a database local to your device, coredata is the standard: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/cocoa/conceptual/coredata/cdProgrammingGuide.html
Small amounts of data can be persisted using user defaults: https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/cocoa/reference/foundation/Classes/NSUserDefaults_Class/Reference/Reference.html
When you said the words "sign up and login page," I suppose you are talking about an online database.
Use Parse.com's BaaS (backend as a service). Its also super easy to implement. Here is a tutorial from them talking about how to make a sign in/sign up page.
Keep in mind, there are other Baas like Kinvey and StorageRoom which are also good as well.
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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.
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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
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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.