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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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Is there a way to make an app compile data from a website? I need to make an app that will display a name, address and some short details - but I need this information to be regularly updated and contributed to by admins, without requiring me to continually add the new information into the app.
I have not done an app of this kind before so any help or assistance would be most appreciated!
Mainly two types of web service available
SOAP
REST.
Use the parsing technique (XML parsing,JSON parsing) depends on the type of web service to parse the data.
The information will be updated automatically in your application when ever some change in the web service happens.
I hope you will get some idea.
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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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In my ios app there are some information which I have to pull from some Content Management System(like Alfresco). Could You please suggest me, how can I integrate Alfresco to my ios app?
There are two options available to you
One of them is to take the source code for the Alfresco Mobile App for iOS which is open source, and start from there. Customise the Alfresco app to do all the additional things you need, with the Alfresco code as your starting point. This will work best if you basically want what the Alfresco App provides, with a few small changes.
The other is to use the CMIS library for iOS which the Alfresco mobile app uses, include that in your existing application, and interact with Alfresco via CMIS. It's also open source. See cmis.alfresco.com if you're new to CMIS and want to learn more.
You'll also likely want to join the Alfresco Mobile Forum, which'll be the best place to get help with either the open source mobile app, or the iOS CMIS client.
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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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I want to implement a Web Service that will allow users to store arbitrary data in my home computer and execute arbitrary batch programs to manipulate said data. In order to keep things simple, so I will not deal with priority queues and concurrent processes yet. My process request queue will be a simple FIFO queue.
So, I know how to implement Web Services, and obviously I know how to implement a FIFO queue, but I do not know how to implement a system service that runs in the background, waiting for requests. Where could I find learning resources on how to develop a Windows service?
I already know Windows development using the Windows API, MFC and even some ATL/WTL. (I also know .NET, but I do not like it very much, because it gets in the way how I design programs.) But I would rather not have to deal with COM.
Since you're developing a service on Windows and you want to use web services chances are that you will want to host your solution in IIS which is already the type of always-on, background application that you want. E.g. runs all the time regardless of login or UI.
If you use the .NET framework then your implementation will become especially easy due to all the project templates available in Visual Studio.
Here's some CodeProject tutorials:
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCFPart1.aspx
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/WCF/WCFWebService.aspx