iOSDev UK: Real-World Data (or There and Back Again)

Hamish Allan, Olive Toast

The story of writing Files Pro — an app to take files with you on an iOS device.

• Used Deusty’s CocoaHTTPServer
  • but starting now, would use Matt Gallagher’s simple HTTP server code
• Dropbox has a nice API
  • operations are aynchronous
• Gamekit makes device to device connection over bluetooth easy
• Could use HTML5 to make a PC-based interface to an iOS app
  • Visit a web page served from the device from your PC and see a flexible app within your browser
• iCloud
  • NSFilePresenter tells you when a file transfer has completed
  • iCloud syncs the meta-data about files first, using NSMetadataQuery
• “Your market is not power users”
• Apple is moving towards a flat list of files with search, rather than a hierarchical system

Q&A

• No hooks in iOS for AirDrop (yet?)
• Nor any GameKit APIs which talk to desktop