ATTENTION: The UI starters have been deprecated and this sample no longer supported. Please visit Bluemix and choose a starter to add capabilities to download and start coding with a working project.

Mobile Client for Bluemix

IBM Mobile Dashboard Store Catalog iOS application

The Store Catalog Mobile Client provides instructions for how to integrate a Bluemix Mobile iOS Store Catalog application into your own customized backend on Bluemix.

The backend uses the following IBM Bluemix services and runtime:

Runtime

API Connect for a single point of REST integration using Loopback with Node.js

Services

Cloudant NoSQL DB to hold a list products in a NoSQL database
Object Storage to store product images
Mobile Client Access for protecting resources
Push Notifications for sending notifications to customers
Mobile Analytics for monitoring trends and performance of the application

Data architecture

Getting started

The repository has a datasources-swift/ folder which shows how to modify the Store Catalog iOS application to retrieve data from your custom backend using API Connect as a single point of REST integration connected to the Cloudant NoSQL DB and Object Storage services on Bluemix.

Before you begin

Ensure that you have:

Provisioned your own customized backend on Bluemix

Create the Mobile Dashboard Store Catalog iOS application

Click the Try Bluemix button to get started:

Navigate to the Mobile area of Bluemix
Click Create Project button
Select the Store Catalog Starter
Add capabilities to your project

Note: At this time, the Project page does not allow the reuse of existing service capabilities. The easiest way to use the service instances from your custom backend is adding new capabilities, and subsequently, replacing the credentials in your downloaded code's BMSCredentials.plist file with the credentials of the service instances you created while running bluegen.
Design the application
Get the source code for iOS in Swift and read accompanying README to install dependencies
Run the Store Catalog application in Xcode

Next steps

Follow instructions in datasources-swift/ to change the datasource to your custom backend and retrieve data from Cloudant NoSQL DB and Object Storage services through API Connect.

License

This package contains sample code provided in source code form. The samples are licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"). You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 and may also view the license in the license file within this package.

ibm-bluemix-mobile-services/mobiledashboard-storecatalog-client