[Sujith]

Hi,

I will list my requirements and what I’m planning to do with my app.
I would appreciate if one tells me if these things are possible with MobiOne and
then points to articles/links on how to achieve them.

I have downloaded MobiOne 2.3.1 and I’m on Windows 7 64 bit.

1). I want to display pricing information for a part(key in part # from the app). I already
have the XML web services working, once I pass in the part # I get the price in the XML.
Is it possible to call a web service from MobiOne and then receive XML info?
If so, could you please point me to some articles/tutorials on how to do that?

2). There is a feature that I might buy and add to the app. It’s to scan the barcode.
http://www.pic2shop.com/index.html
Will I be able to add pic2shop barcode scanner as a widget and use it in Mobione?
If so, would like to if anyone has done something similar and any links to how it’s done.

3). I would like pull out Pictures, PDF files from a file server and would like to display them
on the app. Is this possible and if so, could you please provide any articles/tutorials on how to do that.

I appreciate your help in advance.

Thanks,

Sujith

[support-michael]

#2 is not possible atm. The pic2shop requires your app (e.g., a mobione app) to register a URL handler to support a callback. This is a feature we have been discussing to enabled exactly the type of integration as the pic2shop app. I can say when it will be available but I have added your pic2shop requirement to support such a feature.

[Sujith]

Thanks for the response Wayne,

Do you think 1) and 3) can be accomplish? If so, are there any tutorial you can point me to?

Appreciate your help.

THanks,

Sujith

[Sujith]

I have to make a decision on whether to use MobiOne for my app development
or go back to Xcode etc. I really appreciate if one can clear my questions here.

Thanks,

Sujith

[support-octavio]

Sujith,

For #1 this is straight forward interaction with a web service. Then layout the content into a UI that uses an html widget with custom layout or merge it into a mobione screen that you create with the visual designer (.mobi file).

For #3 do you already know the images and their layout? If yes then again you can pull the image similar to #1 and merge them into your UI. Please note that PDF’s will not render in an embedded manner. On iOS and android they will be managed by the pdf reader app on the device.

I hope this helps in your decision.

[Sujith]

Thanks for the reply Octavio.

For 3),

What would be the easy way to pull PDF’s and JPG files? Using web services, I would
know the file name and I was thinking to load those files to a FTP server hoping that
I can pull the file from FTP server.

Is that the recommended approach?

Thanks,

Sujith

[Sujith]

Hi,

I have downloaded the mobione(paid version) and also created a protype app.
I have to see that it was really easy using MobiOne and I would love to try to keep using it.

But the problem I have is, that I need the barcode scanner feature like the pic2shop I mentioned
in item 2) above.

So, as a workaround, I was thinking as below. Please let me know if this will work or not.

I would use MobiOne to do all the stuff I need and then open the ipa file from Xcode
to add the bar code feature. And then publish to app store.

Will this method work? I am no expert in Xcode/Mac or those tools. But if this works as a concept,
I can invest time and money to try that.

Please let me know.

Thanks,

Sujith

[Sujith]

In below page,
http://www.pic2shop.com/developers.html

they describe 3 ways of using barcodes in apps.

Option 2 is the perfered, but since it’s not supported by MobiOne,
Will I be able to use Option 3?

Thanks,

Sujith

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