Category / Mobile development

Magentic – an iOS and Android Magento log viewer app

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Magentic is a mobile iOS and Android app that works seamlessly with our Inchoo_Magentic Magento extension, enabling you to easily view all your Magento logs.
Magento developers and merchants meet Magentic, your Magento logs for the take off!

Having a quick and on time access to your Magento website logs can sometimes be crucial to your business. Since Magento does not have native way of reading log files other than accessing them trough FTP/SSH, Magentic is here to fill in the blank. Just touch the screen of your iOS based device and your logs are here. Read more

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Magento mobile theme – imobile

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Magento meets jQuery mobile (ver 1.1.0), before we start please note this is only experiment, use this theme on your own, this is not (yet) production ready. In a nutshell we have “package” under which we place all edited files. For start we use magento iphone theme and then add some “extra stuff”. Read more

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Android ksoap2 and Magento v2 API

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neil2580@sxc.hu

When trying to access Magento SOAP web services v2 from Android, after some searching on web, I found that ksoap2-android project could be useful to implement SOAP client in android project. (Ksoap2-android is lightweight and efficient SOAP client library for android platform).
Next step was to figure-out how to use it.
After some additional investigation, I found that it is pretty simple to use, when you get used to it once. Read more

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Add Gravatar to your iOS App

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Our latest iOS application Mageboard is showing customers gravatar. Gravatar is a service for providing globally unique avatars. On Gravatar, users can register an account based on their email address, and upload an avatar to be associated with the account. Read more

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Using Core Plot in iPhone/iPad app

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Core Plot is a plotting framework for iOS and OS X. You can download the latest zip file from here. I’m using CorePlot_1.0. After unzipping it go to CorePlot_1.0/Binaries/iOS, there you can find CorePlotHeaders folder and libCorePlot-CocoaTouch.a, add them to your project. Add QuartzCore.framework, go to Build Settings and add -ObjC -all_load to Other Linker Flags.

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Magento API v2 SOAP demystified

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123dan321@sxc.hu

Last few weeks, i often see confused people asking questions about difference between Magento’s API v1 and v2, and also bunch of questions about how to use WSDL and WS-I files when developing own or extending existing Magento soap API v2.
It is obvious that short articles about specific Magento API parts will not help them to get the bigger picture about Magento core API v2. Because of that, I decided to demystify practical usage of Magento API v2 and also to explain difference when using v1 and/or v2 API.

Let’s start from beginning, to everything clear later:

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How to add a property via class category?

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Have you ever been in a situation where you needed to extend class with additional property but for some organizational reason you didn’t want to change default source class file? For example, when you add Xcode sub-project which you want to keep untouched and up-to date with it’s version control, but still you want to make certain default implementation changes in sub-project.

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Inchoo presents: Mageboard – Your Magento Dashboard!

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Our latest iOS App gives access to Magento Dashboard. Orders, customers, reports – elements which Magento store owners already know, only extra spicy and on the go. You can buy the app from the App Store, install our FREE Magento extension and you are ready for mobile Magento experience. Now lets take a tour with our Demo Store…

NEW: Mageboard Lite Now Available!

For those of you who want to see Mageboard in action before you decide to spend the money on it, we created a free application called Mageboard Lite. For feature comparison chart, please see the Mageboard landing page. For the Mageboard Lite app store URL, follow this link.

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Consuming SOAP web services in iOS

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In past few years I’ve been working on variety of different applications but never on one that includes consuming web services such as SOAP. That’s mostly because SOAP is considered outdated comparing to REST today – totally wrong assumption (comparing apples and oranges).

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Android – playing with separate threads

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shho@sxc.hu

This time, I played a little with Threads and I tried to implement somekind of simple-test separate thread and start it inside main activity and also return results from separate Thread so it can be used to update UI for example. Read more

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