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I'm having lots of trouble setting up the RestKit API to my app. I wonder if there is any other good API to make RESTful apps? I've just followed lots of tutorials and the github directory of the RestKit API, but I just can't get it up and running. I've seen that Xcode 4 is having problems importing this API.
This is an old question, Nowadays, after 4 years in iOS development I use AFNetworking: https://github.com/AFNetworking/AFNetworking
It is quite simple to start, and can be installed using cocoapods.
I use ASIHTTPRequest for RESTful client stuff in my apps.
You can use rest kit api for that.
You find the details about the rest kit in followings link
https://github.com/RestKit/RestKit
I can suggest standard iOS classes such as NSURLConnection and NSJSONSerialization.
Here is a series of posts that explains how to use Blocks to asynchronously perform Http requests against a RESTful API:
http://kerkermeister.net/series/ios-and-rest-http-connections/
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are there any good references to start looking into building a simple but efficient tracking/event tool? Super simple version of a tool like Google Analytics. I am assuming this consist of two separate applications. One for the front-end which gets embedded into the client's website, and a back-end API to handle the events, queue, etc.
Preferred tools for the back-end for me is Rails.
I appreciate the help.
You'd be reinventing the wheel, but you'll need a javascript library to track the user and a rails API. Pretty much what you seem to know you need.
Here's the documentation on building a rails API: https://guides.rubyonrails.org/api_app.html
Refer to the top answer here for the javascript module: User Activity Tracking or Logging with javascript
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I need an advise from an experienced Swift developer who have used Vapor framework.
I was planning to use php to create a control panel for an iOS and Android apps, but I was told to use Vapor http://vapor.codes/ instead of it.
Can anyone answer this question I have about Vapor? Searching internet didn't give me much answers and created some confusion.
When Vapor is ready, will we have a front end for it? I mean a user interface. Like I would have if the backend was created using php, and it's frontend using Bootstrap?
In Vapor you could render html pages using Leaf
So yeah, you could build some website and/or admin panel using Vapor.
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I know this is not a technical question but I don't know where to ask elsewhere.
I use the very cool toolkit called trigger.io to develop apps for both android and ios. Now I would like to use something like a database to display data in my app.
Firstly I found a realtime backend called firebase: http://www.firebase.com/
Nice but it takes a while until one gets access to it since it is still in beta.
Then I found a cloud service called Kinvey: http://www.kinvey.com/ Also interesting, but it is free as long as only 200 users download the app.
So do you know any alternatives to store data and use it for my app?
That would be very helpful,
thanks enne
Sure. Parse is an easy option. Basic plan to get start is $0 a month.
Also, there is nothing stopping you from bundling (or download and saving and caching) a json file for use in your trigger.io app.
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I'm trying to build a basic social iOS app in the new iOS 6 beta as a proof-of-concept project to improve my iOS development skills. In essence I want to allow users to generate an account, store some info in the cloud, and then be able to pull their info (and that of their friends) into the device. I already have a front end roughed in on the device but I now need to start the networking component and am looking for suggestions for any libraries, frameworks, tutorials and/or guidelines to use.
I was thinking of building the server end with node.js and mongodb as I already have a RESTful API built on them which I can adapt to this task. Is this the best way to accomplish such an app? I'm open to any suggestions.
A couple more networking library suggestions:
1) AFNetworking - https://github.com/afnetworking/afnetworking . This is widely used (more so now that ASIHttpRequest has stopped development). It is modern and block-based. However, it is not ARC yet.
2) MKNetworkKit - https://github.com/MugunthKumar/MKNetworkKit . Modern and ARC based.
I switched all my apps from ASIHttpRequest to AFNetworking and highly recommend it.
All the frameworks mentioned so far (ASIHttpRequest, RESTKit, AFNetworking, MKNetworkKit) will talk to a node.js/restful API backend just fine.
The most common and popular libraries to handle network connections are ASIHTTPRequest: http://allseeing-i.com/ASIHTTPRequest/ and RESTKit: http://restkit.org . I am using RESTKit right now as a component of the Salesforce library. I used ASIHTTPRequest in the past and found it to be a very good library. I haven't used it in a while but i highly recommend it.
Edit: I would also reccomend CocoaRestClient to test your APIs.
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I'm developing a project for the iPad. My project is for a medical representatives. I need to populate their appointments, samples sold, to be delivered samples, etc.
I have to work with Cloud interface. For this I have got 2 words which I have to work with.
SalesForce
ZKSForce
I can see documentation about how to use this. But I want to know what is this? What is the purpose of using this.
Why to use SalesForce? Is ZKSForce a free library? Is there any other library apart from ZKSForce?
I need information about these two.
zkSforce is an open source cocoa library that accesses the salesforce.com SOAP api, You could use that or you could use the iOS Mobile SDK which uses the salesforce.com REST api.