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#Office 365 Microsoft Graph Profile Sample for iOS#

This sample uses Microsoft Graph (previously called Office 365 unified API) to fetch the user directory and user profile data from various services like Active Directory, SharePoint, and OneDrive, and then displays them in a simple user interface.

Note: Try out the Get started with Office 365 APIs page which simplifies registration so you can get this sample running faster.

Set up your environment

To run the Office 365 Profile sample, you need the following:

Xcode from Apple.
An Office 365 account. You can get an Office 365 account by signing up for an Office 365 Developer site. This will give you access to the APIs that you can use to create apps that target Office 365 data.
A Microsoft Azure tenant to register your application. Azure Active Directory provides identity services that applications use for authentication and authorization. A trial subscription can be acquired here: Microsoft Azure.

Important: You will also need to ensure your Azure subscription is bound to your Office 365 tenant. To do this, see the Adding a new directory section in the Active Directory team's blog post, Creating and Managing Multiple Windows Azure Active Directories. You can also read Set up Azure Active Directory access for your Developer Site for more information.

Installation of CocoaPods as a dependency manager. CocoaPods will allow you to pull the Office 365 and Azure Active Directory Authentication Library (ADAL) dependencies into the project.

Once you have an Office 365 account and an Azure AD account that is bound to your Office 365 Developer site, you'll need to perform the following steps:

Register your application with Azure, and configure the appropriate Office 365 permissions.
Install and use CocoaPods to get the Office 365 and ADAL authentication dependencies into your project.
Enter the Azure app registration specifics (ClientID and RedirectUri) and other constants into the project in XCode.

Use CocoaPods to import the O365 iOS SDK

Note: If you've never used CocoaPods before as a dependency manager you'll have to install it prior to getting your Office 365 iOS SDK dependencies into your project.

Execute the next lines of code from the Terminal app on your Mac.

sudo gem install cocoapods pod setup

If the install and setup are successful, you should see the message Setup completed in Terminal. For more information on CocoaPods, and its usage, see CocoaPods.

Get the ADALiOS dependency in your project The Profile sample already contains a podfile that will get the ADAL components (pods) into your project. It's located in the sample root ("Podfile"). The example shows the contents of the file.

target 'O365-iOS-Profile' do pod 'ADALiOS', '~> 1.0.0' # 1.0.0 < ver < 1.1.0 end

You'll simply need to navigate to the project directory in the Terminal app (root of the project folder) and run the following command.

pod install

Note: You should receive confirmation that these dependencies have been added to the project and that you must open the workspace instead of the project from now on in Xcode (O365-iOS-Profile.xcworkspace). If there is a syntax error in the Podfile, you will encounter an error when you run the install command.

Register your app with Microsoft Azure

Sign in to the Azure Management Portal, using your Azure AD credentials.
Select Active Directory on the left menu, then select the directory for your Office 365 developer site.
On the top menu, select Applications.
Seelct Add from the bottom menu.
On the What do you want to do page, select Add an application my organization is developing.
On the Tell us about your application page, specify O365-iOS-Profile for the application name and select NATIVE CLIENT APPLICATION for type.
Select the arrow icon on the lower-right corner of the page.
On the Application information page, specify a Redirect URI, for this example, you can specify http://localhost/o365iosprofile, and then select the check box in the lower-right hand corner of the page. Remember this value for the section Get the ClientID and RedirectUri into the project.
Once the application has been successfully added, you will be taken to the quick start page for the application. Select Configure in the top menu.
Under permissions to other applications, select Microsoft Graph and add the following permissions: Read items in all site collections, Read all users' basic profiles, and Sign in and read user profile.
Copy the value specified for Client ID on the Configure page. Remember this value for the section Getting the ClientID and RedirectUri into the project.
Select Save in the bottom menu.

Get the Client ID and Redirect Uri and other constants into the project

Finally you'll need to add the Client ID and Redirect Uri you recorded from the previous section Register your app with Microsoft Azure.

Browse the O365-iOS-Profile project directory and open up the workspace (O365-iOS-Profile.xcworkspace). In the AuthenticationManager.m file you'll see that the ClientID and RedirectUri values can be added to the top of the file. Supply the necessary values in this file.

// You will set your application's clientId and redirect URI. You get
// these when you register your application in Azure AD.

static NSString * const REDIRECT_URL_STRING = @"ENTER_REDIRECT_URI_HERE";

static NSString * const CLIENT_ID           = @"ENTER_CLIENT_ID_HERE";

Next enter the other constants in the files.

In O365UnifiedEndpointOperations.m, enter your tenant name, such as x.onmicrosoft.com.

static NSString * const TENANT_STRING = @"ENTER_YOUR-TENANT_NAME_HERE/";

Important Code Files

Models

These domain entities are custom classes that represent the data of the application. All of these classes are immutable. They wrap the basic entities provided by the Microsoft Graph APIs.

Office365 Helpers

The helpers are the classes that actually communicate with Office 365 by making REST API calls. This architecture decouples the rest of the app from the Microsoft Graph APIs.

Controllers

These are the controllers for the two views supported by this sample.

Views

This implements all of the custom cells used by the controllers in this sample to display nicely formatted data. Note that the number of rows needed for each type of table cell varies depending on the number of direct reports, or the number of files shared. It is for this reason, that it has been created independently instead of as a prototype cell in the storyboard.

Questions and comments

We'd love to get your feedback on the Office 365 Profile sample. You can send your feedback to us in the Issues section of this repository.
Questions about Office 365 development in general should be posted to Stack Overflow. Make sure that your questions are tagged with [Office365] and [MicrosoftGraph].

Contributing

You will need to sign a Contributor License Agreement before submitting your pull request. To complete the Contributor License Agreement (CLA), you will need to submit a request via the form and then electronically sign the CLA when you receive the email containing the link to the document.

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