Post on 10-May-2015
Build your first Native iOS app
with an API Backend!
twitter:@mdobs@timburks
Matt Dobson@mdobsmatt.d@apigee.comTim Burks@timburkstim@radtastical.com
Do you have XCode installed?
I work @ Apigee.
We help power eBayBest Buy, Walgreens, Gilt Groupe, NewEgg, Cars.com, Dell, Getty Images, GraceNote, Shazam, HomeAway, Pearson, cheezburger
We’ve organized trainings for HTML5, but this is our first for iOS!
Why do we do this?Why free?
Apigee is always free for developers.
- Hosted (25GB limit)- Open-source (full)- Private clusters
1. Objective - C2. API Backend3. App Store
Have you developed for iOS before? What do you want to learn today?
Objective-C
What is Objective-C?
Object Oriented.
.h and .m files
NS prefixes
Brackets, Brackets, Brackets
Download the project
j.mp/ios-books
Our books app!
Setting up our UI
Model ViewController
Storyboards
Master-Detail App
Segues
Setup a segue in our app
IBOutlets
Setup outlets for our detail view
Set up Controllers
Build with a Backend.
Why use a Backend?
It’s remote data storage you can access in your code.
It’s like iCloud or Dropbox, because it lets you sync data across devices.
ServerInfrastructure
AppCode
SDK API
Usergrid? Apigee?
Let’s take a look at Apigee
j.mp/apigee-sign-up
Add some data
SDKs available for…
JS, node.js, iOS, Android, Ruby, Rails,C#, Java, WP8, etc.
Getting data
Answer:
j.mp/all-books
and
j.mp/book-title
Storing Data
Answer:
j.mp/creating-book
Deleting Data
Answer:
j.mp/delete-book
App Store
Submitting
Create App Id
Create Certificate
Create Provisioning profile
iTunes Connect
Approval Process
App Store Launch
Congrats!
What else can be done?
Push NotificationsGeolocationUser ManagementFile StoragePicture SharingSocial NetworkingSecurity
Build your own...
iCloudRetail StoreSocial Networks
Scale to Millions
Advanced Class? Training for your company? Questions?
matt.d@apigee.com
Ask for help!Announce projects!
j.mp/app-craft
Sign up now :)
Thanks!
We’d love feedback on how to make it better. Let us know!
matt.d@apigee.com