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RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

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RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials

Overview of this book

RubyMotion is a revolutionary toolchain for iOS app development. With RubyMotion, you can quickly develop and test native iOS apps for the iPhone and iPad, combining the expressiveness and simplicity of Ruby with the power of the iOS SDK. "RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials" is a hands-on guide for developing iOS apps using RubyMotion. With RubyMotion, you can eliminate the complexity and confusion associated with the development of iOS applications using Objective-C. We'll begin from scratch. Starting by installing RubyMotion, we'll build ourselves up to developing an app that uses the various device capabilities iOS has to offer. What's more, we'll even learn how to launch your app on the App Store! We'll also learn to use iOS SDK classes to create application views. Discover how to use the camera, geolocation, gestures, and other device capabilities to create engaging, interactive apps. We'll develop stunning user interfaces faster with the XCode interface builder and make web apps by using WebView. We'll then augment applications with RubyMotion gems, doing more by writing less code and learn how to write test cases for RubyMotion projects. Finally, we'll understand the app submission process to push your app to Apple's App Store With "RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials", we will learn how to create iOS apps with ease. At the end of each chapter we will have a tangible and running app, which utilizes the concepts we have learnt in that chapter.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
RubyMotion iOS Development Essentials
Credits
About the Authors
Acknowledgement
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Do it yourself


So far we have learned a lot; now let's use our acquired knowledge and improvise our restro application by implementing the following changes:

Task 1 – show nearest restaurant

To get data from the server, use the http://restro.nalwaya.com/restaurants/find_restaurent_distance.json?latitude=#{latitude}&&longitude=#{longitude} API.

You have to pass the latitude and longitude with this request, and in return, you will get a list of restaurants in the JSON format. Use this as input and create a view displaying the results.

Task 2 – mark each restaurant on a map with a pin

Use the http://restro.nalwaya.com/restaurants/search.json?city={city_name} API that will give you a list of restaurants with their latitude and longitude in the JSON format. Use these coordinates to show their location on the map.

Once you are done with this exercise, compare your solution with the one available in the chapter code available with this book.