Developing enterprise iOS applications / James Turner ; editor: Brian Jepson ; illustrator: Robert Romano.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, James, 1962-

Contributor:

Jepson, Brian.

Romano, Robert (Illustrator), illustrator.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

iOS (Electronic resource).

Application software--Development.

Application software.

Mobile commerce.

iPhone (Smartphone)--Programming.

iPhone (Smartphone).

iPad (Computer)--Programming.

iPad (Computer).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (114 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Beijing : O'Reilly, 2011.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

If you plan to develop iOS applications in a corporate setting-for internal consumption or for sale to end users-you need to read this book. Veteran developer James Turner shares best practices and lessons learned from his recent on-the-ground experience planning, building, and shipping an iOS application in an enterprise environment. With lots of examples and solid advice, you'll learn how to use Xcode, Objective-C, and other Apple development tools within the confines of enterprise software methodologies. Don't be deterred by Apple's development philosophy. If you're familiar w

Contents:

Table of Contents; Preface; Who This Book Is For; How This Book Is Organized; Conventions Used in This Book; Using Code Examples; Safari® Books Online; How to Contact Us; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Enterprise iOS Applications; Apple Developers-An Army of One; Build Automation Is a Bit of a Challenge; Objective-C Doesn't Play Well with Others; Code Coverage Is for Weenies; iTunes Connect Is a Great Way to Keep Your Legal Staff Employed; You Can Have Any Style of Distribution, as Long as it's iTunes; The Road Is Long and Winding; A Few Caveats; Chapter 2. Concurrent Development with iOS

A Little Ditty 'bout Tom and DianeMore Merge Mayhem; Workspaces and Static Libraries; Make Sure All Dependent Projects Do Their Own Unit Testing; You Need to Plan Out Common Resource Issues; You Can Still End Up Stepping on Each Other's Feet; Let's Be Careful Out There; Chapter 3. Automating iOS Builds; Introducing Hudson; Breaking the News to Your IT Department; Provisioning Your Build Machine; Installing Hudson; Creating the Build Job; The Main Configuration Screen; Discard old builds; This build is parameterized; Disable build; Execute concurrent builds; Advanced options

Source Code Management with HudsonTrying Your First Build; Creating an Ant Build File; Testing xcodebuild; Integrating xcodebuild into an Ant Script; Calling the Ant Script from Hudson; Getting Fancy with Hudson; Running a Nightly Build; Include the Build Number Directly into the Application Version; Parameterize the Build Script; Chapter 4. Integrating iOS Applications into Enterprise Services; The Rules of the Road; Rule 1: Insist on Contract-Driven Development; Rule 2: Be Neither Chunky Nor Chatty; First Things First: Getting a Connection; Using NSURLConnection-The BuggyWhip News Network

Something a Little More Practical-Parsing XML ResponseGenerating XML for Submission to Services; Once More, with JSON; SOAP on a Rope; A Final Caution; Chapter 5. Testing Enterprise iOS Applications; Unit Testing iOS Applications; Setting Up an OCUnit Target; Generating Code Coverage Metrics; Generating Code Complexity Metrics; Creating UI Tests (The Old and Painful Way); UI Testing Using OCUnit; Chapter 6. Enterprises and the iTunes App Store; Things to Start Worrying About Immediately; Legal Considerations; Marketing Considerations; Production Considerations; Bonus Considerations

Things to Worry About a Month Before LaunchGet a Binary into Review; Double-Check App Store Readiness; Have a Chat With Your Support Group About Bug Reports; Things to Worry About Two Weeks Before Launch; Upload the Final Version to iTunes Connect; Things to Worry About One Week Before Launch; When to Pull the Trigger; Things to Worry About on Launch Day; Things to Worry About in the Month After Launch; Chapter 7. Distributing Enterprise iOS Applications; Testing Applications with Ad Hoc Profiles; A Better Mousetrap for Ad Hoc Infrastructure; Advanced Testflight-Fu; Enterprise Distribution

A Gotcha With Enterprise-Based Development

Notes:

"iPhone and iPad apps for companies and organizations"--Cover.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781449325831

1449325831

9781449325848

144932584X

OCLC:

768732545