iOS Cloud Development For Dummies - Softcover

Goldstein, Neal

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118026233 ISBN 13: 9781118026236

Publisher: For Dummies, 2012

Synopsis

Want to create robust, data-driven, iOS cloud apps? This book makes it easier!

Apple's mobile operating system (iOS) supports iPhones, iPads, iPods and other Apple devices, and while even beginners can now develop apps to run just on these devices themselves, sometimes you want to create an app with more heft. Applications such as live weather reports or multi-player games require a lot of data to be pulled from outside—often from cloud-based Web Services, such as Google or Amazon. This book, written by application development expert Neal Goldstein, shows you how to weave all of this together to create robust iOS apps.

Developers will learn how to get, post, and modify data as well as how to create and deploy new, app-specific Web Services. The book includes numerous sample programs such as Xcode projects, sample server code used to create Web Services in the cloud, desktop client back-ends, and more.

• Takes new and seasoned developers beyond the creation of simple client-based iOS applications to create more sophisticated, data-driven, cloud-based mobile apps
• Explains how to access existing Web Services from native iOS applications and also how to create and deploy new, app-specific Web Services
• Includes sample programs such as Xcode projects with complete source code, and sample server code for creating cloud-based Web Services
• Offers valuable and hard-to-get information for new or veteran iOS developers, from small shops to enterprise iOS development
• Shows you how to use iCloud and Core data to enable apps running on different devices to share data

Connecting your iOS app to the cloud just got easier, with iOS Cloud Development For Dummies.

Note: Apple's iOS SDK tools are only accessible on Intel-powered Mac and MacBook devices.

About this title

About the Author

Neal Goldstein was an early developer of applications using object-based technologies. He's the bestselling author of iPhone Application Development For Dummies and iPad Application Development For Dummies.

From the Back Cover

Build robust, data-driven mobile apps and web services that take advantage of iCloud

If iOS development, object-oriented programming, and Objective-C are familiar to you and you have an Intel-based Mac, you're ready to open this book and start developing iPhone and iPad apps that share data using iCloud and web services. You'll also learn to develop the services themselves! Create apps that share data, keep that data current, sync it with iCloud, and more.

• Explore the Application Ecosystem — discover how apps can capitalize on the similar and unique characteristics of the iPhone® and iPad®
• The Core of the cloud — learn about the Core Data stack and how to use it within your apps to add iCloud support
• At your service — set up your app to request and use XML and JSON data
• What clients need — explore service-oriented architecture and understand what makes quality web services
• Build your own — find out how to design and create a secure web service

Open the book and find:

• What a really great mobile app should include
• How web services give your apps added usability
• All about Core Data and how to use it
• The difference iCloud makes
• How to set up your app to use web services
• All about processing XML and JSON
• Tips for developing secure iOS apps
• Prototypes for using web services in your own apps

Learn to:

• Use Core Data to share data between apps using iCloud
• Store your app's objects using Core Data
• Design, develop, and deploy the web services your app needs
• Choose data formats and use server metrics and analytics

Edition details

• Publisher: For Dummies
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1118026233
• ISBN 13: 9781118026236
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 480