I used google app engine as my backend server. I watched the google I/O video, and it said it can generate the IOS api library in EndPoints by command line. But I couldn't find the way to do that, and there is no information about it on the Internet. Is there anyone who uses google app engine as their IOS app backend and could answer my question?
Working with GAE, there is no way to generate an API "in objective-c". Google app engine infrastructure supports Java and python, so you need to write your API in one of these languages to deploy it in GAE cloud.
Then, in your iOS application, you will need to communicate with the APIs you just deployed in GAE, this can be done with a so called client library. Here is an example of a client library for Objective-C.
Cloud Endpoints is still under Trusted Tester program.
You can sign up here:
http://endpoints-trusted-tester.appspot.com/
UPDATE Official docs on generating iOS client libs can be found here:
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So my current task at the company I'm interning with is to create a mobile version (iOS) of a web app written using Flask, HTML & CSS that currently exists and is being hosted on AWS's EC2. Assume I'm a complete noob at AWS and only just learned that EC2 is a cloud computing service.
Essentially, I just want to be able to reflect what's currently on EC2 over to a mobile app in a secure fashion. I guess I'm just trying to avoid rebuilding something in Swift that's already been done. For those familiar with WebView in Xcode, I tried to use that to reflect the web page, but it didn't work (I assume because our web app on EC2 requires login credentials when you open it in a browser?).
I thought that maybe using AWS's SDK for iOS would net me some luck, so I installed cocoapods and setup a pod, but don't know how or which of these AWS services will help me achieve what I'm trying to do (from reading the documentation, it seems like their purpose is for building an app, not necessarily just projecting a webpage with data already in it).
For some more information, some key features that I think would be useful for our clients that would be using the app are:
The ability to persist data on the app when their device is offline
Some sort of temporary logins for the users. This app wouldn't be distributed through the app store; it would probably just have to be locally downloaded onto certain clients' devices
Lastly, I saw this post come up before creating this one: Does REST API for mobile apps hosted on https protocol web app will be slow? and I noticed that the asker of this question said "Lets say I have built a mobile app running on Android and iOS platform and REST API's for these apps lie under https based web application." This possibly sounds like something that could be helpful, and if anyone could explain what s/he meant by REST API's and what they are, I would be very grateful.
Any advice on how to proceed from here, using anything, would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I'm working on an iOS app and need to implement user authentication over the internet. We are running an LDAP service on an IBM Domino backend. We are also using Swift for the app.
I have looked up many tutorials, examples, etc. about using openLDAP libraries, however the problem lies in the fact that everything is in Objective-C.
My question is: Is there anyway to implement LDAP user authentication over the internet in an iOS app written in Swift? An Apple library, openLDAP or something similar.
At the time of writing the question, I couldn't find anything online or in the Apple documentation.
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Is it possible to use the AWS mobile services (Cognito, Analytics, etc) without linking all the SDK in an Xcode project?
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* While I am not new to AWS nor mobile programming, the following case is challenging:
We are shipping a mobile "framework" (not app) that uses our AWS for some parts (Authentication, logs).
And, as the AWS SDK has to be linked in the app project itself, this will require us asking all the clients (developers) to download and link it in their own projects.
What is used in the framework is just one request for authentication and one for logging (success/failure, disconnection), so no need for all the SDK.
I wonder if there is a possibility to request AWS services without linking against the SDK?
I know it's possible to put then under an umbrella SDK, or do some cherry picking from their git repository, but both of these seem like overkill.
As the request itself is a simple URL with Get/Post, is there a possibility (or tutorial) on constructing the request manually via NSURLConnexion/NSURLSession, etc?
Thank you
Talking to the AWS APIs is actually not that hard. The main difficulty is signing your http requests, and that's not nearly as bad as it sounds. Which leaves xml parsing accounting for most of the unpleasantness.
I've done it in go. The most informative part is probably the signing tests.
Indeed, it is possible. You will have to code calls to AWS at the REST level. Everything you need is in the documentation of AWS.
For instance, if you needed to execute actions on EC2, here's what you'd have to code:
http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/APIReference/Query-Requests.html#structure-of-a-get-request
You can call the HTTP APIs directly. Since the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS and Android are open source, you can look at them directly. Find the AWS Mobile SDK for iOS Source on Github, and the AWS Mobile SDK for Android on Github. Since you mentioned you need authentication request on iOS I am guessing you're looking for the Cognito Identity in AWSCore source.
I have a few questions on Google's App Engine Mobile Backend Starter. The starter tutorial gives a sample client app but I am confused on how to build my own application to use Google's app engine mobile backend starter. Am I supposed to extend off the Object C code given in the sample app? Or is this documentation of the API sufficient to start my own app from scratch? Does anyone have any links to tutorials on things like this? The ones provided by google do not seem to be very helpful in these regards.
1.How to programmatically connect with QuickBooks Online using .NET? We followed the below article but this needs manual intervention to connect.
http://ippdocs.intuit.com/0025_QuickBooksAPI/0010_Getting_Started/0020_Connect/0010_From_Within_Your_App/Test_the_In-App_Connect_Flow
Initially we developed the sample application using the code:
https://github.com/IntuitDeveloperRelations/IPP_Sample_Code/tree/master/QuickbooksAPI/DotNet/WebForms%20application
2.Which type of integration method we have to use Json or .NET SDK library? Most of the Json examples are code fragment only, Where we can download the sample application using Json with .NET
You cannot connect to Quickbooks APIs without manual intervention as it is a part of the 3 legged OAUTH flow.
The .Net SDK supports XML and JSON. There is no separate JSON library. The sample app for Dotnet in v3 is not yet available. Please refer to the docs for generating the JSON requests.
https://developer.intuit.com
If you want to create SaaS application and want to publish it in Appcenter then you need to implement OAuth flow which needs user's input for authorization. In the dev env, using the above sample app, you can get the OAuth tokens(consumer key, consumer secret, access key and access token) which you can use in your app to call all API endpoints.
https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0055_devkits/0150_ipp_.net_devkit_3.0/0002_synchronous_calls/0001_data_service_apis#Step_3:_Build_the_ServiceContext
FAQ - https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0058_faq
.Net V3 Link - https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0055_devkits/0150_ipp_.net_devkit_3.0
But Intuit Quickbooks API(V2/V3) are only for SaaS app. If you want to create some custom solution for one company then you should use QBSDK.
Ref -https://developer.intuit.com/docs/0025_quickbooksapi/0055_devkits/0250_qb
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