[DUG] iPad App development

[Alister Christie]

I've not done iOS development as yet, but
1) Yes you currently still need a Mac
2) On iOS the database of choice is SQLite
3) I don't think the Indy components work on iOS as yet
4 / 5) no idea.

Currently it looks really hard to produce an iOS app from Delphi - I'm 
hoping the situation will improve with XE3.  Embarcadero have been 
making progress in this area - the latest being mobile data connectors 
for DataSnap that work with Free Pascal on iOS (which is how Delphi apps 
get compiled in XCode).

At this stage you are probably best using XCode or something like PhoneGap.

Alister Christie
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On 8/03/2012 3:48 p.m., Robert Martin wrote:
> Hi
>
> We have a request for an iPad app (our first).  As an owner of XE2 I
> believe we have the tools for this.  However I do have some question...
>
> 1) Is Mac OS required.   I understand there is an emulator to test apps
> but do we actually need to buy a Mac to do this work? (would add a
> significant cost to the project).
>
> 2) What database would we use, our data is in Firebird but I believe
> their is no embedded FB for IOS.  Is there a standard / built in DB that
> we would use and populate data from say XML recieved via Http?
>
> 3)  I assume I can use http(s) for communication, can I also use FTP?
> What components would I use (Indy ?)
>
> 4) what about deployment?  I have used App store but how do we ship out
> our app, we wouldn't really want to put it out on app store.
>
> 5) what about updates ?
>
> Does anybody have any recommended sites?
>
> Thanks
> Rob
>
>
> p.s. yes I have only just started looking into this !
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