iPhone, Drupal, and Web Services

Mobile Strategy is becoming critical to websites and companies who want to provide their users with more accessible and interactive information while on the go. Iphone Apps provide a great way for these organizations to adapt their content and features to an integrated mobile experience.

With the rising popularity of these apps, we need a standard Drupal iPhone application or Library to begin working with when developing apps that reference Drupal content. Today's solution is a Library that leverages the power of Cocoa/obj-c and connects it to Drupal.

In this presentation I will demonstrate how easy it is to integrate your Drupal powered website with Services, a New Web Services module, and the iPhone SDK. I’ll go into depth about how to configure your Drupal Site in order to obtain the information you'll need for your iPhone app. On the iPhone SDK side, I will explain the pros and cons of the Library and any extensions you'll need to add for custom functionality as well as a demo of it working.

The best part is, it all uses Apples Property List format, which means you can directly make objects from a Web Services call and not have to parse any XML or JSON. This greatly reduces the battery consumption and processing power required by your app.