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What options do we have to enable a user of an app to share a file with another user on another device ?
My application is a task management app, I want to enable my users to share lists, notes, etc.
I haven't found a way to do this with iCloud.
Depending on how you want to implement the work-flow, there are a number of ways to accomplish this.
Spotify allows users to sync files between computers and mobile devices, if both are on the same local network. You could use Bonjour to discover if there are any valid endpoints on the local network, and then sync directly over a TCP/IP socket.
If you're looking for cloud sync, Parse provides a cloud-app-api service that lets you easily store objects, including files and binary data on the cloud. You'll have to write your own user management layer, but they provide API's for storing and retrieving data.
From the comments, there are other companies that provide similar services to parse: Buddy, Stackmob, Kinvey, and applicasa to name a few. The idea is to leverage an API-as-a-Service provider for all backend needs.
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I want to write a program for transferring files and documents between a network computers. Many files may have been transferring at moment. every computer can receive and send files, it means system have to be ready to send files and listening to receive files.
I can configure program on each system as i want (for example give a list of connected computers' ip to program to choose target system for transfer file into)
Do i have to make Server-Client type applications or i can have JUST one program running on computers? I know question is vast but helping me to choose the best way will be appreciated.
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I want to write this program by Delphi 2010 and network computers os is Windows 7.
You can do it peer-to-peer. The very same program can both listen for requests to transfer or receive files from other computers and issue its own requests to transfer or receive files to other computers.
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I have made an ipad app in which I want to implement a log in using active directory authenticaion. so far, i have not found anything on how to do this. I want to use the ipad's mac id to authenticate against the active directory. How can I implement this, or is there any other way I can implement a security log in to my app
We have just created a free SDK to enable you to add Active Directory authentication to your mobile application. You can also register your backend web service and the mobile application can request a SAML token for your backend to provide single sign-on for the user once they login for the first time. The solution is free and works even if the user and device are on a public network.
Find out more at http://www.centrify.com/mas
We built this service since we had not seen any other way to do this aside from embedding a lot of ldap and kerberos inside the app which also would not work if the user was on a public network.
-David
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I have a potential client that wants to build a platform agnostic application. Initially it'll run on a windows 7 tablet and will expand. Its a roofing business, so they're going to take pictures with the camera, fill out some forms, and then generate a report from it. The first thing I can think of is making an API call to a web service I create that does some crystal reports magic them returns to the client.
Problem is, they aren't always guaranteed internet access. What can I do here? My thoughts right now are building the app in rails or MVC 4.
It is pretty hard to answer your question since it won't be an exactly answer, but my thougths are:
1° - Build a Windows Phone app that will fill out everything that is
needed and store locally
2° - Do a background process that will send this via rest calls to a
service
3° - Build the service to receive the requests and a rails app to the
client to login and have access to the reports this can be made in
rails
This is a possibility if they need to access reports from anywhere. Otherwise the reports could be made in the tablet itself.
Just some thoughts, the solution may take a very different path, since you were not accurate enough to a definitive answer.
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I tried to find the answer to this question but could not, to be more precise, some apps like instagram have a custom backend, like they have a profile tab in the app where the users profile is stored, including the pics they upload.I want to know how is that page created, and how is the data saved to that page.So in short,if for my app I want to have a profile tab,how do I go about creating it, and how is the data storage done? I wanted to know whether the profile page under my profile tab is created, as in is it done in Xcode or some web design application and linked to Xcode?
Don't get me wrong, I'm not asking for the detailed process,just what software is used and a basic outline.
The back ends are PHP or any other server side languages, these are presented as service APIs interface, the most common is RESTful interfaces, the application connects to these RESTful services to store and retrieve data from
You may also want to read up on core data as any offline profile data is probably stored in core data or as NSUser Defaults.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/DataManagement/Conceptual/iPhoneCoreData01/Introduction/Introduction.html
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#DOCUMENTATION/Cocoa/Reference/Foundation/Classes/NSUserDefaults_Class/Reference/Reference.html
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How do I track a program Internet Request? Like Windows Live Messenger, in order to make a bot that does the same thing.
Because I'm making a application that verifies the number of users online, and chat with these people, but I would like to know, where does it connect to do that.
In Web I use the LiveHTTPHeader or FireBug to see where is the page sending GET/Post DATA too and which parameters are being sent. What about desktop applications? how do I do?
You should use a library, for instance in csharp:
http://code.google.com/p/msnp-sharp/
Because tracking web request is irrelevant. if you want to make a bot, you should work with an Api.
Applications like Live Messenger, Skype etc do not normally use the http protocol to communicate with their servers or peers. Instead they mostly use their own, sometimes proprietary protocols over TCP/IP, over ports other than the default http port. In order to "listen" to what these programs are sending/receiving you would need a program that "sniffs" TCP data. I imagine however that these eavesdropping attempts will mostly prove futile, since many of the programs you are trying to understand also use encryption.
Use Wireshark to dump all your network traffic, then use filters so you keep only the data that Messenger sends.
http://www.wireshark.org/