iPhone Application Server Hosting

[Tuero]

I am currently working on ideas for a mobile application (Haven't dove into Swift yet, but have been doing a lot of reading about the language syntax and features). One of the things that I will need is a server for the application to communicate with over the net, and does anyone have any good suggestions/experience with ones that they have used? Also, I cannot remember correctly, but I thought I herd at last years WWDC that Apple was offering rudimentary server hosting services for applications, but I cannot find any information on this.

[maxib7]

It's beautiful, easy to use, and they have a well documented api. https://www.parse.com/

 

I use it for my app. They have a lot of tools you can implement too.

 

 

Side note: I thought Objective-C was the native language for iphone development?

[Tuero]

I believe (again I haven't tried this yet but from what I have read), its possible to do everything with Swift/CocoaTouch. You can still run legacy Objective-C as it is, or incorporate it with swift.

 

And parse looks really interesting! They have free options to at least get your feet running and getting a production app without actually paying money while trying to test things out. Thanks for that!

[maxib7]

No problem! It was a god-send for me when I found it. I was able to implement a login and registration system so easily with it. 

 

Wish I could help you out more with you project but I develop on the android side   however I was tempted to learn to make iphone apps instead of android because objective-c is so

 

similar to C which the first language I learned and I'm most comfortable in C based languages. Java luckily is a brother to objective-c as they are both derived from C.

[Tuero]

I haven't take an indepth look at objective-C but from what I have read, the language was pretty clunky. So far I find swift pretty intuitive and easy to understand