Beginning iOS Cloud and Database Development
Build Data-Driven Cloud Apps for iOS
Published on 28. February 2014
XIII, 168 pages
978-1-4302-4114-0 (ISBN)
Description
Beginning iOS Cloud and Database Development gets you started with building apps that use Apple's iCloud. You'll learn the techniques which will enable you to devise and create iOS apps that can interact with iCloud servers. From the basics up, you'll progressively learn how to configure your app for iCloud, upload and download files, implement revisions, add conflict resolution policies, and work with custom documents. There's more! You'll learn how to integrate iCloud with Core Data based applications. Besides technical advice, you'll find suggestions and best practices to design the interaction of iCloud-driven applications. According to many industry sources, analysts, and shows, Apple will rely more and more on iCloud or web apps in the cloud to store and stream data-intensive media and other kinds of apps. As the majority of apps use some sort of data-and that only will grow as apps become more complex with rich and streaming media-this book shows developers how to create apps for iCloud, Apple's new cloud computing storage and data service.
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Beginning iOS Cloud and Database Development
Build Data-Driven Cloud Apps for iOS
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Nathan Ooley has been developing applications since 2007. As an entrepreneur at heart, in 2008 he started a company in the NE side of Minneapolis in the Artists District, called Appmosphere. Ooley has been working in media consulting for 20 years prior to converging to app development. With the iOS SDK, Appmosphere has been a pioneer in working with new technologies including GPS, Core Data and multithreading software design for their clients. After Apple announced the iCloud to developers in June of 2011, Appmosphere quickly incorporated one of his current apps to utilize this new feature. We launched Quote Guru 2.0 with iCloud functionality with in-app purchasing in December of 2011.
Content
- Intro
- Contents at a Glance
- Contents
- About the Authors
- Introduction
- About the Technical Reviewer
- Chapter 1: Cloud Database Development - The Basics
- Explanation of a Remote or Cloud Database
- Types of Database Development
- Database Platforms and Services
- Characters and Fields
- Records and Tables
- The Database File
- The Relational Database
- Database Management System
- Multiple Sources
- The Advantages of a Cloud Database Management System
- The Disadvantages of a Cloud Database Management System
- Summary
- Chapter 2: Introduction to the Cloud
- The Movement to the Cloud
- Why Develop an App with the Cloud?
- What Are iCloud's Key Offerings?
- Designing for iCloud
- iOS and Mac OS iCloud
- What Are the Expectations of Knowledge for Programming?
- Summary
- Chapter 3: Applications for the Cloud
- Case Study of Storm: A Data-Driven, Cloud-Based Solution
- Case Study of iCloud: Storm Manager App
- Case Study of Azure: Grocery Store Customer Application
- Case Study of MySQL: Storm Point of Sale Application
- Chapter 4: Basic Setup of iCloud and Key-Value Storage
- App IDs, Provisioning, and Entitlements
- App IDs
- Provisioning
- Entitlements
- Setting Up Your App ID and Provisioning Profile
- Creating Your Development Provisioning Profile
- Setting Up Your Project in Xcode
- Configuring Your Project with iCloud Support
- Building the Foundation of the App
- Organization and Preliminary Setup
- Setting Up Your Storyboard
- It Is Time for Some Code!
- Constants File
- Application Delegate and NSUserDefaults
- Main View Controller
- Goodbye FlipsideViewController, Hello SettingsViewController
- Back to the Storyboard
- Key-Value Store
- NSUbiquitousKeyValueStore
- Summary
- Chapter 5: iCloud Document Storage with UIDocument
- iCloud Document Storage
- Ubiquity Container
- Document Metadata
- Document Data
- Peer to Peer
- Conflict Resolution
- URL Publishing
- Ubiquity Identity Token
- Types of Documents
- Modifying Our Current Project for UIDocument Support
- Modifying the Storyboard
- Configuring the Collection View Controller
- Configuring the Detail View Controller
- Adding Our Code Files
- CTAppDelegate
- EntryCollectionViewCell
- FriendsCollectionViewController
- FriendDetailViewController
- UIDocument
- Our Document Model
- CTDocument
- Implementing CTDocument
- Implementing CTDocument with iCloud
- Controlling iCloud with Settings
- A Few More Constants
- Many Different States
- Summary
- Chapter 6: iCloud with Core Data
- What Is Core Data?
- Fallback Store
- Core Data Logging
- Asynchronous Setup
- Closest Friends
- Adding the CloseFriend Entity
- Modifying the Storyboard
- Configuring the Table View Controller
- Configuring the Detail View Controller
- Create View Controller Classes
- CloseFriendsTableViewController
- CloseFriendDetailViewController
- Imports and Private Interface Setup
- On to the Implementation
- View Configuration Methods
- Adding an Action Sheet for our photoTapped: Method
- Image Picker Delegate Methods
- Text Field Delegate Method
- Bar Button Methods
- Wrapping Up Our View Controller Code
- Storyboard Modifications
- Adding iCloud to Core Data
- Summary
- Chapter 7: Testing and App Submission
- New Debugging in Xcode
- Security Considerations
- Connectivity Testing
- Editing a Document on Multiple Devices
- Testing Forward and Backward Compatibility
- Testing Saves to iCloud
- Emptying the Ubiquity Container
- Other Tests
- Provisioning and Entitlements
- Renewing Expired Provisioning Profiles
- App Submission and Approval
- Summary
- Index
