James Turner - Developing Enterprise iOS Applications: iPhone and iPad Apps for Companies and Organizations

Copyright 2011 James Turner

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First things first: if youve never touched Objective-C or Cocoa before, you need to backfill some knowledge before you jump into Enterprise iOS. There are any number of good books out there to get you started with the basic Apple development tools such as Xcode. One good place to start is Learning iPhone Programming by Alasdair Allan, also published by OReilly. Apple also provides a number of good resources to members of their developer community.

Im also going to make the assumption in this book that you, the reader, are familiar with the ins and outs of Enterprise software development, including concepts such as SOAP, XML, REST, source control, continuous integration and regression, unit testing and code coverage, etc.

So, in short, this book is aimed at someone who expects to be (or already is) developing iOS software for use in Enterprise environments, and needs to know how to make the Apple development and deployment universe work smoothly with the requirements of corporate software methodologies. But many of the techniques laid out in this book may prove useful to you, even if you arent in a large company or trying to sell applications to Enterprise customers.

To get you on your way, well start with a basic overview of the challenges that face Enterprise developers working with iOS. We will then, in turn, address each one of this issues, starting with collaborative development problems, and finishing up with long term support issues for Enterprise apps.

Along the way, well look at a number of the more important topics you may run into, including testing and distributing apps, integrating apps with backend systems, and a handy check-list of things you need to remember to think about as the ship date for your app approaches.

Each chapter stands more or less alone, so if you only want to see how to call a SOAP service from an iPhone app, you can jump right to that chapter without having to wade through all the other stuff.