Developing native applications for iOS in Xcode

To create an IBM MobileFirst™ Platform Foundation app, you must set up the IBM MobileFirst Platform Foundation SDK and configuration files, and add them to your iOS Xcode project. Then you can start to develop your app.

To develop a native iOS application, you must add the MobileFirst framework files to your Xcode project and register the app on the IBM MobileFirst Platform Server. See Registering iOS applications to MobileFirst Server.

You can add the MobileFirst frameworks to your Xcode project in one of the following ways:

• Obtaining a set of MobileFirst framework files and manually copying them to your Xcode project. See Setting up the Xcode project for iOS manually.
• Using CocoaPods. See Adding MobileFirst SDK to an iOS Xcode project using CocoaPods.

The following topics show you how to set up an initial project and start developing.