how to develop iPad app that will take photos and sync to web server or database
Hello experts,
I need to create an iPad app that will download some customer records from our database (such as through our .net web server), let our field agents take a photo and update each record, and then sync back up to our customer database when they're connected through VPN.
How would something like that work? Should I use a SQLite3 database on the iPad to download the customer records? Then use the UIImagePickerController to save the photo onto the iPad? Then how do I get that data synced back up to the customer database?
Thanks. Any advice or links to additional reference material is greatly appreciated.
I need to create an iPad app that will download some customer records from our database (such as through our .net web server), let our field agents take a photo and update each record, and then sync back up to our customer database when they're connected through VPN.
How would something like that work? Should I use a SQLite3 database on the iPad to download the customer records? Then use the UIImagePickerController to save the photo onto the iPad? Then how do I get that data synced back up to the customer database?
Thanks. Any advice or links to additional reference material is greatly appreciated.
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Programmer-X,
Thanks for the info. I'll likely have to download 100 or so records to the iPad containing some customer info. Do you think I should use SQLite3 to temporarily store this data until my web service can upload it back to the server?
Thanks again. I appreciate your help very much.
Thanks for the info. I'll likely have to download 100 or so records to the iPad containing some customer info. Do you think I should use SQLite3 to temporarily store this data until my web service can upload it back to the server?
Thanks again. I appreciate your help very much.
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Design and develop web service for the commands that your application on iPad makes. For example you will have a web method for uploading data from iPad to server and a method for downloading the data (of course you might have more methods like authentication, etc.) the web service is connected to your database and can satisfy you data transfer requirements. Also an asp..net web service is also easy to develop)
On the web service you should choose the arguments and return values carefully to decrease your troubles with wrapping and casting types from objective-c to probably c# or vb.
You can use the image classes on iPhone (uiimagepicker-I'm not sure) to save and load photos. So you will have the photos files. You can convert the photos to binary and pass them to the web service and vice versa.
Hope it gives you the idea....