Tutorial & Code: Developing Apps For iPhone/iPad/Android Using Drupal As Base System
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May 2, 2010
Tutorial & Code: Developing Apps For iPhone/iPad/Android Using Drupal As Base System
Last week I posted some initial resources related to my DrupalCon San Francisco session Developing Apps for iPhone/iPad/Android using drupal as Base System.
Here is what you need to connect your Drupal site to Titanium App:
- Titanium Developer
- iPhone SDK
- Drupal basic installation
- Services Module
- Modified Version of json_server module
For this tutorial I have installed services API and modified version of json_server module over http://drupalcon.tut2tech.com/ so that my json server call URL is:
http://drupalcon.tut2tech.com/services/json
Note: I am not using any authentication method for this tutorial.
Code to connect Titanium with Drupal and making a call for "pages_list" view will be: 
This same code is used in demo application attached to this blog, please download and follow instructions as per above video - you need to replace resources folder of your newly created application with one attached to this blog.
Reason why I modified json_server module's code is also described in video.
- JS SHA256 Library This could be useful with key authentication method (in Services API core)
- Javascript function to create a XMLRPC request:
| Attachment | Size |
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| json_server_modified.zip_.txt | 10.9 KB |
| Resources.zip_.txt | 1.37 MB |
Eric Zun (not verified) July 31, 2011
Fantastic tutorial, it's a great insight into where and how to start things. However, I'm also looking for a way to grab CCK data. Any tips or links?Many thanks,Eric
Akash (not verified) April 28, 2011
Hello i have followed the above steps to run the application but my application is not launching in the emulator .For running a application , configuration i am using istitanium 1.2.2sdk api 1.6 also tried with api 2.2 alsoIn the titanium, this the info i am getting while launchingit sucessfully launch the application but end up with this info 'application should be running' and the when i see in emulator its n
toddejohnson (not verified) March 12, 2011
Do you have plans as submitting your changes to json_server as a patch and getting them included into the module?
Anonymous (not verified) March 1, 2011
Good Day To All, Great read here. I was wondering if there will be a D7 for JSON Server? Thanks, Mark
pete (not verified) February 8, 2011
your sample worked great for me, and i was able to get a view from my own site as well. however, when i try to use menu.get, i keep getting an access denied" error. i can call it from the services admin in drupal just fine, but when i build the iphone application, it doesn't work. has anyone else experienced this? i'm running services 6.x-2.4 with your modified version of json_Server( 6.x-2.0-alpha1).thanks!-pete
pete (not verified) February 18, 2011
so my issue wasn't with the webservice, it was with drupal permissions. once i updated them, it worked just fine.if anyone out there gets an access denied error, id go back and check your permissions on each of the services you are trying to invoke.thanks!-pete
justin (not verified) January 28, 2011
Has anyone figured out the issue with node.save?
mishudark (not verified) January 22, 2011
I try the same code on my local virtualhost, but i recibed the log "Connection to http://drupal6.net refused" .... any idea???
Anonymous (not verified) November 25, 2010
Can someone please advise on how to upload images from photo gallery to drupal backend?
Anonymous (not verified) October 11, 2010
@JeroenSee here for an authentication example:http://blog.soniccode.com/php/drupal-connected-iphone-application-using-services-and-authentication/Robert
RobAus September 30, 2010
Hi Sumit,Would you please be able to post examples for node.get and node.save?The views.get code in this post works great and I am trying to achieve the same results with node.get and node.save but am not having much luck.Thank you!!!Robert
Steve (not verified) July 14, 2010
If you have a linux distro that ships with php 5.1.x like me, and you don't want to upgrade php. You can use this JSON wrapper I found, located here:http://www.boutell.com/scripts/jsonwrapper.html
Woot Drupal iPhone/Android apps with php 5.1.x!
Hope it helps someone, Thanks again Sumit
Steve (not verified) July 13, 2010
it appears I need php 5.2.x in order to use json_encode/decode :O
Steve (not verified) July 13, 2010
This bit of a code is great, I really appreciate you sharing this. I got this totally working on one of my sites, on another site I copy my services folder entirely and don't receive this prompt when I go to /services/json:
{"#error":true,"#data":"JSON server accepts POST requests only.
the site where I don't get the prompt is in a subdomain (cause It's in development), is this why I can't get it to work? If so, where would I change that in the code?
Anyhow, much appreciated!
Gregg (not verified) July 5, 2010
In thinking about this a bit more, it would be really great if you could post a "Kitchen Sink" for Drupal package consisting of the code you used in either the initial youtube video you posted or the app you demonstrated during the SF2010 presentation. It would be awesome to be able to look into how you structured your code to access videos, images, map points , save a node etc from Drupal views using services. This will allow us to answer a lot of our own questions by looking into your code rather than inundating you with questions :)
Just a thought
Thanks
Gregg
shane (not verified) July 30, 2010
I've been looking forward to checking out the drupal 'kitchen sink' demo code for some time. i was expecting it to be released shortly after your wicked drupalcon sf demo. curious to know what the holdup is?please share the code - release early and release often, i promise i'll contribute back :)
thetoast (not verified) July 5, 2010
.......phonegap which has also been approved by apple to build apps with.
thetoast (not verified) July 5, 2010
....but be warned, your app (whether you use Titanium or Phonegap) can't just consist of "web views", Apple will not approve apps like these as this is classed as "web app" and not a "native app".
Gregg Coppen (not verified) July 1, 2010
Look forward to your future tutorials and will keep an eye on your site. Keep up the great work.
Thanks again
Gregg Coppen (not verified) June 30, 2010
This is such a useful article that I would give a huge +1 to turning into a series of articles on this topic covering some more advanced elements including the how to get node.save and cck fields working through titanium.
Thanks for your awesome pioneering work with this stuff, its very exciting where it can all go from here.
Thanks
Gregg
Nal (not verified) June 17, 2010
I don't know much about titanium,i m just programer wanted to make website ipad compatible which at present make in using joomla, plz can u help me to explain how can i start making ipad apps//
Really i have been search this for last 3 week but didn't get any hind or any detail.. of how usatoday is being made..
plz help me out
Nal (not verified) June 17, 2010
I don't know much about titanium,i m just programer wanted to make website ipad compatible which at present make in using joomla, plz can u help me to explain how can i start making ipad apps//
Really i have been search this for last 3 week but didn't get any hind or any detail.. of how usatoday is being made..
plz help me out
Anonymous (not verified) May 22, 2010
Sumit,
I'm having trouble getting cck fields into my app. They are included in the call result when I test views.get on the Services Admin page. However, the cck fields are not present in the call result within Titanium. Things like "node_title" and "users_name" show up fine, however.
Regards,
Thomas
Rudy (not verified) May 19, 2010
Do you know how to use the node.save method via a JSON server, I have the following code but the node is not getting posted to my test site.
var node = new Object;
node.method = 'node.save';
node.type = 'story';
node.title = 'Created by android';
node.body = 'Bla bal bal bal';
node.uid = 1;
node.name = 'admin';
node.nid = 0;
node.status = 1;
Ti.API.info(node);
var xhrsave = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient();
xhrsave.open("POST", url);
xhrsave.send({data: JSON.stringify(node)});
leo (not verified) June 22, 2010
I have tried the same code as Rudy and hit the same problem.
Debugging provides no useful feedback as to what is going on.
If I try to capture a response using
xhr.onload =
function() {
Ti.API.info(this.responseText);
The titanium logger returns:
[INFO] <null>
Can anyone help with code that works for node.save or just a way to improve logging of what the server is actaully responding?
An example for saving data back to Drupal would be a great 'part two' follow up to this really useful post.
Cheers,
Leo
Scott (not verified) May 10, 2010
Hey thanks for this. I'm trying to pull a bunch of geo data from a view that I have and plot the points on a map. I can see in your example how you can create annotations and pass each one into the mapView but I can't figure out what it looks like to get them programmatically and plot them on the map. I am able to get the longitude and latitude from the views.get call but not sure where to go from there. Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Anonymous (not verified) May 5, 2010
Is this using Services 2.x or 1.x version? I am using 2.x with JSON server 2.x and I have problems passing arguments to views.get, see http://drupal.org/node/252783.
Anonymous (not verified) May 4, 2010
Is that true that Apple policies say you can't use Titanium or any other cross compiping technologies any more?
heyrocker (not verified) May 3, 2010
I just wanted to point out that I have recently taken over maintainership of JSON Server module and we hope to have a stable release out shortly. I am aware that the current release has several show-stopping problems, and I really want to help get those sorted out as quickly as possible in order that the Services community can continue to use it.
Jeroen (not verified) May 3, 2010
Do you have a sample on how to use authentication?