[Nfd-dev] [Ndn-lib] Preview of NFD-iOS and SwiftNDN library

[Wentao Shang]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 5:58 AM Ivan Yeo <ivanyeo at cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

>  Nice! Looks great! I have a developer key and could test stuff out if
> you need me too. We can possibly do it over screen share, if you need to
> give me on screen instructions for stuff.
>

That will be very helpful! I'll let you know when the code is ready so you
can test it.

My biggest concern right now is the background execution mode. Somehow NFD
works magically in background on the simulator without being suspended by
iOS. But I'm not sure whether we will get the same behavior on a real
device...

Best,
Wentao


>
> Yep, Swift is probably the way to go, I'm with you on that, albeit, I
> develop mostly in ObjC :)
>
> Cheers,
> Ivan
>
>
> On 03/18/2015 05:03 PM, Wentao Shang wrote:
>
> Hi team,
>
>  I write this message to inform you that there has been major progress on
> porting NFD to iOS platform. As for now, I'm able to compile and run NFD as
> an iOS App on the iPhone simulator. I cannot test it on real device because
> it requires signing the package with Apple-certified developer's key which
> I don't have. So there might be unexpected bugs when the App runs on real
> iPhones :P Unfortunately the code is not available on Github yet because
> I'm still trying to reorganize the dependencies in order to simplify the
> build process. After that I'll publish the code.
>
>  Before I started the porting work, I was already working on a new NDN
> client library written in (almost) pure Swift, which is designed for Apple
> platforms exclusively (Mac, iPhone, iPad, etc.) It is not polished right
> now but you can take a look at the code at
> https://github.com/wentaoshang/SwiftNDN
>
>  The motivation of using Swift as a development language is because it is
> one of the best languages for building OSX and iOS apps, especially when
> you need a GUI interface using Cocoa or Cocoa Touch. (The other choice is
> Objective C but I don't quite like that language. Also, Apple is promoting
> the new language very hard to hopefully replace the old one.)
>
>  Attached are some screenshots of the NFD app running on iPhone
> simulator. It is built with Cocoa Touch and SwiftNDN and has the basic
> functionality of reporting forwarder status such as faces, fib and rib
> information. All my testing are done primarily using this demo app and some
> basic consumer/producer apps built with the same libraries.
>
>  Best,
> Wentao
>
>
>
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