Workflow between appery.io and Xcode

[GordonG]

Hi All,
I am looking for advice on how to manage development when using appery.io's online IDE and then exporting to Xcode source for native development.

I understand that exporting is kind of an endpoint of the online IDE, but this does not seem satisfactory. Take this scenario;

I develop and test my app online. Now I need to export to Xcode to develop native bits that I cannot do in the online IDE (e.g., interapp data sharing, send email, printing). I start in on creating those pieces of functionality in Xcode.

Inevitably I discover bugs in my appery.io code, or that I need changes to the design or database. So I go back into appery.io to make the necessary modifications.

At this point I have two versions of my app. the online one and the local Xcode project I have changed.

If I export my updated appery.io source, how do I manage reintegrating the new source into the Xcode project I have been working on? I can see how this becomes difficult.

Any ideas on the best way to handle these workflow issues?

If I decide that the best way is to skip the hassle and just develop 100% native, does appery.io have a native sdk/library, so that I can still use appery.io's database services without developing them using the online IDE?

[Maryna Brodina]

Hello!

Unfortunately once the app is exported from Appery.io there is no way to import it back. You can edit source code and add native device features through editor on Source tab http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat....

[GordonG]

Hi Maryna,
understood.

The problem is there are some native APIs that there are not phone gap plugins for that I can find, such as a way of easily trading data between email and my app.

I guess the question is, if I have to go back to appery.io, make changes, and export again, how do identify what changed, or what I can copy over to the Xcode app I would have been working on. Does that make sense? How do I integrate the two?

Suppose, for example, I discover that I need a new field in my database. Is there a way of modifying my appery.io REST invocations and their ensuing event calls in Xcode? I mean, I see the appery.io source there, but it's not clear what I can change without causing problems somewhere.

Suppose I wanted to write an app from scratch in Xcode. How would I go about communicating with the appery.io backend database?

[Maryna Brodina]

I guess there is no way to integrate both app versions from Appery.io and xCode. You need to develop app using one environment, or develop part of app in Appery.io and finish in xCode.

Appery.io DB has a REST API http://devcenter.appery.io/documentat... which you may use in xCode app