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Developing Enterprise iOS
Applications

James Turner

Beijing • Cambridge • Farnham • Kưln • Sebastopol • Tokyo


Developing Enterprise iOS Applications
by James Turner
Copyright © 2012 James Turner. All rights reserved.
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Table of Contents

Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
1. Enterprise iOS Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Apple Developers—An Army of One
Build Automation Is a Bit of a Challenge
Objective-C Doesn’t Play Well with Others
Code Coverage Is for Weenies
iTunes Connect Is a Great Way to Keep Your Legal Staff Employed
You Can Have Any Style of Distribution, as Long as it’s iTunes
The Road Is Long and Winding
A Few Caveats

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2. Concurrent Development with iOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
A Little Ditty ‘bout Tom and Diane
More Merge Mayhem
Workspaces and Static Libraries
Make Sure All Dependent Projects Do Their Own Unit Testing
You Need to Plan Out Common Resource Issues
You Can Still End Up Stepping on Each Other’s Feet
Let’s Be Careful Out There

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3. Automating iOS Builds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
Introducing Hudson
Breaking the News to Your IT Department
Provisioning Your Build Machine
Installing Hudson
Creating the Build Job

The Main Configuration Screen
Source Code Management with Hudson
Trying Your First Build
Creating an Ant Build File

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About the Author
James Turner is a freelance journalist and developer who has recently spent more than
a year developing an enterprise iOS application for a major software ISV. He is a contributing editor for oreilly.com, and has written for publications as diverse as the
Christian Science Monitor, Processor, Linuxworld Magazine, Developer.com and
WIRED Magazine. In addition to his shorter writing, he has also written two books on
Java Web Development (MySQL & JSP Web Applications and Struts: Kick Start, both
by Sams). He is the former Senior Editor of LinuxWorld Magazine and Senior Contributing Editor for Linux Today. He has also spent more than 30 years as a software
engineer and system administrator, and currently works as a Senior Software Engineer
for a company in the Boston area. His past employers include the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Xerox AI Systems, Solbourne Computer, Interleaf, the Christian
Science Monitor, and contracting positions at BBN and Fidelity Investments. He is a
committer on the Apache Jakarta Struts project and served as the Struts 1.1B3 release
manager. He lives in a 200-year-old Colonial farmhouse in Derry, NH with his wife

and son. He is an open water diver and instrument-rated private pilot, as well as an
avid science fiction fan.