Application Development with Parse using iOS SDK : develop the backend of your applications instantly using Parse iOS SDK

✍ Scribed by Birani, Bhanu

• Publisher: Packt Publishing
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 112
• Series: Community experience distilled
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Parse lets you focus on creating engaging apps on any platform while keeping your data and code in the cloud. It's a mold-breaking approach to mobile app development and this tutorial brings you right up to speed.

Overview

• Build your applications using Parse iOS which serves as a complete cloud-based backend service
• Understand and write your code on cloud to minimize the load on the client side
• Learn how to create your own applications using Parse SDK, with the help of the step- by- step, practical tutorials

In Detail

Parse using iOS SDK is a new technology, and is the first of its kind in the field of mobile application development. It provides you the cloud where you can keep your data, host your code, and even your website without any hassle. It provides SDK so that you can access your data through your mobile and web applications.

This practical, hands- on guide will help you to instantly get started with Parse iOS. It is packed with step- by- step exercises, which will help you to take advantage of the real power of the Parse iOS cloud backend service, and provides you with an example- based approach to help you build applications using Parse iOS.

Starting with Parse iOS installation, we will move onto integration, and finally, this guide will end with the development of an application using Parse iOS. You will also learn about securing your application data by specifying ACL and Roles to your data objects. We will also learn about configuration in detail, and the implementation of cloud code to make your application lighter on the client side. You can take advantage of iCloud by hosting your website as well.

You will learn everything that you need to know to develop your application using Parse iOS as a backend.

What you will learn from this book

• Learn how to handle objects and queries in Parse
• Work with subclasses and files, to use the Parse iOS cloud to save data
• Discover how to configure your application on Parse along with its installation in your project
• Use Parse analytics for tracking users' activity on applications
• Understand user creation with login process and user roles to secure data on Parse iOS cloud
• Get to grips with the different ways to handle errors along with securing your data on cloud

Approach

A practical guide, featuring step-by-step instructions showing you how to use Parse iOS, and handle your data on cloud.

Who this book is written for

If you are a developer who wants to build your applications instantly using Parse iOS as a back end application development, this book is ideal for you. This book will help you to understand Parse, featuring examples to help you get familiar with the concepts of Parse iOS.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Copyright
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: Getting Started with Parse
Parse backend service
Advantages of using Parse
Setting up accounts and applications on Parse
Integrating Parse in an iOS project
Setting up Parse
Summary
Chapter 2: Parse Objects and Queries
Parse objects
PFObject
Operations on Parse objects
Saving objects
Fetching objects
Saving objects offline
Updating objects
Updating counters
Storing data in array format
Deleting objects
Relations and data types
Relations
Data types. Working with queriesUsing predicates
Adding query constraints
Relational and complex queries
Array-based queries
String-based queries
Relational queries
Counting objects
Compound queries
Caching queries
Summary
Chapter 3: Subclasses and Files
Subclassing PFObject
Customizing properties and methods
Initializing subclasses
Creating queries
Handling files
PFFile
Saving images
Tracking progress
Summary
Chapter 4: Parse Analytics
Integrating Parse analytics
Tracking pages
Clearing all badges
Reading analytics data
Data usage
Advantages of analytics
Summary. Chapter 5: Push NotificationsSetting up push notifications
Creating an SSL certificate
Generating certificate requests
Setting up your App ID
Creating your provisioning profile
Configuring your Parse app
Configuring an iOS application for push notifications
Installation
Sending push notifications
Parse website
Parse app
Cloud Code
Sending notifications
Channels
Subscribing to channels
Sending push notifications to channels
Using advanced targeting
Sending pushes to queries
Customizing notifications
Platform-based targeting
Receiving push notifications. Responding to payloadSummary
Chapter 6: Users and Roles
PFUser
User login
Signing up
Verifying the user
Logging in
Saving the user's data
Creating an anonymous user
Resetting passwords
Writing user queries
Providing security
Updating the user object
Securing objects
Assigning roles
PFRole
Securing the role object
Securing other objects
Implementing role hierarchy
Summary
Chapter 7: Social Media Integration
Integrating Facebook
Prerequisites
Setting up the application
Signing up on Facebook
Publishing on Facebook
Requesting user data
Linking users
Logging out. Keeping users logged-inIntegrating Twitter
Setting up Twitter
Signing up and logging in
Linking users
Summary
Chapter 8: Using Cloud Functions
The cloud code
Installing the command-line tool
Setting up the cloud code
Creating the cloud function
Hosting a website
Understanding the complex functions
Using cloud on the saved code
Using cloud on the delete code
Summary
Chapter 9: Error Handling and Security
Error handling
Securing your application data
Exporting data
Summary
Index.

✦ Subjects

iOS (Electronic resource);IOS (Electronic resource);Application software -- Development.;Cloud computing.;COMPUTERS -- Software Development & Engineering -- General.;COMPUTERS -- Programming -- General.