Hello everyone, I am a complete n00b to iPhone app development, though not to programming/game creation. I am building an app for a friend of mine at church (the youth pastor) and I wanted to pick your brain to see what the best way to go about making this would be.
The app is an event tracking app where the youth pastor will create a list of upcoming events that will be pushed down to the client application. The client app will be able to see upcoming events and view their details, as well as receive push notifications a)whenever a new event is created by the youth pastor and/or b)whenever the youth pastor wants to randomly send a push notification.
I know that I'm going to need a simple client/server setup for this to work, with a client app and an admin program to create the events and send the notifications. I'm told that I can use the church's web server for pushing the events to the client apps, but I don't know the best way to make this app.
Has anyone had any experience or does anyone have any suggestions on how I should go about making this app?
Check out the Vanderbilt Events App. It does basically what you want, and it's open source. The code can be found here. All you really need to do is brand it for your youth group and figure out how to get it up and running on your server. I don't know if it's well documented or not.
Anyways, here's a place to start, it will give you a good idea of how to approach your problem. If nothing more, you can use the code as a guide to give yourself ideas about how to approach your own specific problem.
Last edited by smithdale87; 08-18-2011 at 09:02 AM.
Check out the Vanderbilt Events App. It does basically what you want, and it's open source. The code can be found here. All you really need to do is brand it for your youth group and figure out how to get it up and running on your server. I don't know if it's well documented or not.
Anyways, here's a place to start, it will give you a good idea of how to approach your problem. If nothing more, you can use the code as a guide to give yourself ideas about how to approach your own specific problem.
Hey thanks alot! I've been looking around on the internet and have found a few things explaining stuff like basic UI development, and basic APNS development, but nothing really specific to what I'm trying to do, so thanks for the link, and the quick reply!
Regarding push notifications, you might wanna check out Urban Airship. They do all of the hard server-side apns work for you.
Hey thanks again, I like the idea of the server-side work being done already, though I wonder how hard that part actually is. I mean, all I really need is the ability to send a basic notification and a badge icon. It looks like Urban Airship's API might be overkill for what I need.
Right, the idea behind pre-packaged stuff is that it can save you time and money in development. Since it's not completely customized for your exact needs though, it can be overkill at times. If you're interested more in learning all of the workings of APNS, then yea, you would benefit from doing it yourself.
Right, the idea behind pre-packaged stuff is that it can save you time and money in development. Since it's not completely customized for your exact needs though, it can be overkill at times. If you're interested more in learning all of the workings of APNS, then yea, you would benefit from doing it yourself.
Thanks, I'll do some more research and hopefully find out what I'm really getting myself into before I'm in too deep to back out (dirty jokes aside ).
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