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Background: I have sucessfully built many webApps and have recently been hired to build my first true native iPad app. It is for a sales team that needs to be able to access documents (HTML and PDFs ) while on sales calls. There needs to be an option to save/star specific docs to thier local device (premeeting) if they are going to be offline. Then when back online, the app will auto update any offline docs as well as the main app.
There are a few major tasks that I am dumbfounded on how to accomplish.
1) releasing the app intertanaly (not public on app store). There is a good amount of info on this but if there is a holy grail post, please pass it along.
2) display dynamic content. There is a large list of products that gets updated on a daily basis. I can connect to an XML doc or php. what’s better/easier? How is this done natively? Ajax? Jquery post backs? What’s the missing link that I don’t know about yet?
3)!save files to offline view?
4) update the app core and starred offline files? Also keep in mind this will be an enterprise app.I know this is a lot to ask so please forgive me and thank you in advanced for your genierous help.
I have spent some time thinking about your requirements. I believe they are doable using MobiOne but it will require good design skills, well versed with javascript concepts and coding and native debugging. This is not a limitation of MobiOne as I’m not aware of any mobile dev env that will handle your complex caching, refreshing, favorites, …. mechanisms without being comfortable with JavaScript and having some good design skills.
I was in a discussion with the dev team earlier today as they laid out how to support some basic support for data binding and offline support. But that will not be available until near EOY.
