Test your iPA file

Here are the steps to installing your App on your iPhone or iPad using .ipa files.

1. I will send you one or two files. One will be a .ipa file and the other will be a .mobileprovision file.  Save them in a convenient location
    
2. Open iTunes.  Then drag the downloaded .mobileprovision (if provided) & the .ipa files and drop it into iTunes Library.
   
   
    
3. In iTunes select your iPhone (or iPad) under devices.
    
4. Go to the Apps tab and make sure the checkbox for the new App is checked.  If not, check it yourself.
   
   
    
5. Press Sync.  After it is synced, you should be able to unplug you iPhone and play with the App.

iOS 7

Apple's crisp, newly announced OS update gives the mobile operating system a radical new look and some first-for-Apple features for iPhone and iPad fans, like quick-access system controls, automatic app updates, and Apple's AirDrop file-sharing system.

It changes absolutely everything, from the typography and color schemes to the typical icon and button shape across the entire platform. I mean the whole thing -- from the Safari browser to the photo app.

This is the first major redesign of the iOS since the iPhone's first release in 2007,  no doubt..  Apple's developer website crushed horde of mobile developers iOS 7 beta.

iOS 7 brings huge changes in the visual department, which is an important part of the way you relate with your tablet or phone. 

Yet the really substantial, game-changing new features are few and far between

That said, Apple has a history of keeping its most pulse-quickening news for its next iPhone and iPad announcements. For that, we will have to wait until this fall

Transfer the APK file to your Phone

1. Copy the APK file to your Android’s memory card and insert the card into your phone.
2. Download and install the Apps Installer application from the Android Market
3. Once installed, the Apps Installer will display the APK files on the memory card.
4. Click and install your APK files.

It is possible to install APK files without utilizing the Android Market, although the process is more difficult and complex. To avoid the Android Market, you need to use Android SDK.

1. Download and install the Google Android SDK program and the Android USB drivers. The download links are as follows: http://code.google.com/android/intro/installing.html
2. http://dl.google.com/android/android_usb_windows.zip
3. You need to modify your Android’s settings to allow the installation of applications from other sources. Under “Settings,” select “Application Settings” and then enable “Unknown Sources.” Also under “Settings,” select “SD Card” and “Phone Storage,” and finally enable “Disable Use for USB Storage”
4. This last step is easy. Open Command Prompt and type the following: adb install <1>/<2>.apk
5. However, when you type the command, replace <1> with the path to your APK file and replace <2> with the name of the APK file.
6. You’re done! Your application is now ready for your use and enjoyment.

How To Uninstall Xcode Completely

To uninstall developer tools/Xcode type in the following command in the terminal


sudo /Developer/Library/uninstall-devtools –mode=all

How to test your Adhoc build on your iOS Device

Steps:

1) Connect your iPhone to the computer and open iTunes..
2) Select apps in iTunes menu (left side), unzip the attachment and
drag both the files into iTunes Apps Area (right side)
3) Select your device and go to the apps tab and select the App file
and hit sync.
4) If there is no error, the app will be transferred into the iPhone.

How to find your iOS device's UDID

Hi,

These are the simple steps to know the UDID for your iOS Device.. ( iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch)

1) Connect your device to your computer and open iTunes.

2) Select your iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch under Devices Label in iTunes on the left menu.

3) On the right pane, select the first tab that goes by the title, "Summary".

4) Click on the serial number label to get the UDID (Unique Device Identification), it will be a 40 characters alpha numeric string.

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Web Services and iPhone

One of the thing that really bugs me as an iPhone OS Developer is when I mention the term "web services" to a client or someone you need to convince about the job at hand.

The thing is to understand here is that how do we transfer data between an application thats running on the user's device and my application running on the user's computer. Well frankly we don't have a direct solution for this problem.

Let me delve into the concept and the need a little bit more.

The keyword here is 'interoperability', Internet as we all know is ever expanding. We have newer Platforms, Programming Languages, Operating Systems introduced every now and then; So the need to communicate across programming languages and operating systems has brought the concept of web services to us.

A web service can be a list of methods/procedures that can be utilized inter or intra programming languages, OS, hardware that's being used to develop them in the first place.

Once a web service is deployed on the internet it can be used by any client using the internet standards XML,HTTP.

There are other fundamentals of web services like XML,SOAP,WSDL and UDDI that can be googled for clarity.

Coming back to the moot point now, iPhone programming does not provide a direct way for third party developers to transfer data between the user's computer and the device.

To cite a few examples here:

• A PDF viewing application needs a way to get PDF files to the device.
• An iPhone OS application with 'free' and 'pro' versions needs to transfer data between these versions.
• An iPhone application wanting to share live feeds on its interface from a website or an API.

iTunes does this for various system-supported data types (movies, music, contacts, and so on) but there's no way for you to piggyback on top of that support.

The only way out is to implement your own transfer mechanism based on TCP/IP networking. You gotta be familiar with network programming otherwise this could be a bit dodgy.

Any networking code must deal with a set of fundamental problems like,

• Reliability : All I can say is TCP is the answer here. It is the best protocol for data transfer.
• Bandwidth : Amount of data that can be transferred.
• Latency : Expressed in round trip time from destination to source after data transfer.
• Attacks : This is always an area of concern when you connect to a network.

iPhone OS is less vulnerable to this sort of problem than Mac OS X because iPhone OS puts strict limits on what memory within your process can be executed as code. However we must not get complacent about it! Malicious Attackers are always looking for new ways for exploitation.

Some of these problems can only be solved in the context of your overall architecture.

It is recommended to become familiar with the fundamentals of security layer and its working.

Solutions to the two network designs:

Centralized : single server on public internet and all clients connect to the server.

iPhone OS devices currently support three link layers for networking (WWAN, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth), and all of them present challenges for peer-to-peer use.

Solutions for centralized server designs:

• Service Directory : process whereby peers learn about the existence and address of other peers.
• Authorization : your application is the guardian of the user's data.
• Wire Privacy : I recommend that you err on the side of caution and consider all user data to be personal.

Solutions for peer-to-peer designs:

• Bonjour services
• Bluetooth
• Wi-Fi
• On-The-Wire Privacy
• Gamekit
• Creating Identities
• Authorization
• NSNetServices & CFNetServices

Some of the above mentioned services might require iPhone OS 3.0.

FTP is a protocol for file transfer and its high-level goal is to transfer files from one machine to another.

AFP is the default sharing protocol on Mac OS X. This could be tricky though, AFP is quite a complicated protocol, and there's no high-level API for it on iPhone OS. Moreover, AFP is a very Mac-centric protocol, which is a problem if you want to sell your application to users of other platforms.

Although having said all that about MAC and iPhone's networking technicalities and capabilities, there is one notable omission in the iPhone SDK is the lack of a core web services framework. iPhone's emphasis on internet connectivity is all the more surprising that there is no native framework for SOAP web services.

So as developers we are not left with any choice but to roll on our own.

For iPhone OS to use a framework interacting with SOAP without one is not that difficult; its similar to REST-ful web service.

Data is POSTed over HTTP at a particular endpoint URL, and the application translates the results into native objects on run-time.

That's all for now!! Will be updating soon about the SOAP and JSON framework as I learn about it. :)

Till then keep your code clean and god bless.