Creating an iOS App from RSS Feed is possible as a Self Hosted PHP MySQL Application. This article is bare guideline to get started with Cloud hosted WordPress. The word Cloud hosted has value – this app can suck quite good resource, so it is better to have a scalable MySQL Database and FTP server. It is your own risk if you want to take – usually this is the most common professional way of hosting a full iOS App with custom designed appearance.
Creating an iOS App from RSS Feed : Understanding the Basics
Third Party app honestly sucks and you need a practical professional and long lasting application for iOS – there are many things to consider than you can think about. Merely creating an App which fetches RSS feed to storyboard is really not that interesting than a custom designed App with proper promo, full own API and nicely coded iOS Application. Truely, there is absolutely no shortcut.
If you have a Mac, then obviously for the frontend, you will require XCode to test and debug your App. Typically, the iOS App created in this way is hosted on the domain’s ios named sub-directory like :
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example.com/ios/
PHP and MySQL will give an HTML output. That is exactly what we need. This article on Creating an iOS App from RSS Feed will provide you the needed idea, what you need to consider, what you basically want and how you should plan than providing codes. Obviously, we will provide you source code of such App in future but, again you will need to customize it.
Creating an iOS App from RSS Feed : Blueprint for Cloud Hosted WordPress
For the frontend, which possibly makes most of us terrified, there are basically lot of Free Softwares which can be used as frameworks. You can do a search on GitHub to get such. Obviously you have to know some basics how to create an iOS App. This is basically the Storyboard frontend. You must design it properly, so that it does not become a bare RSS feed fetcher. None will install them – you need to apply your basic marketing tricks.
Second part is creating the web service backend. Practically, this is PHP App fetching JSON data :
1 2 3 | include_once("JSON.php"); $json = new service_JSON(); $link = mysql_pconnect("localhost", "username", "password") or die("Could not connect"); |
Actually, it is possible to use Twitter Account too – you can read this guide, Get your Twitter™s Tweet as RSS and JSON with New Twitter API, there are quite important links for this purpose too, specially for the API part.
Third part is creating the MySQL database for storing the data, authorizing etc.
Definitely, creating an iOS App from RSS Feed in this way will take more time but this is what is the truly correct way and it is unlikely that your App will ever get flagged for spamming.
