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appmakr
brand new to sales force dev and doing research
i've been asked to build an iphone application for a construction franchise. one of the buttons in the app is suppose to bring up the groups salesforce.com instance.
What is the best way to accomplish this?
use a web service api and rebuild all the fields necessary?
just launch a web view to a site like http://m.salesforce.com (that doesn't seem to exist)
use an iPhone / Salesforce SDK? (i could not find anything here)
Thanks in advance as salesforce is new to me...
Scott
There is a Salesforce iPhone client on iTunes. It will enable access to your company's Salesforce org with zero custom development (you'll have to use 'Setup>Administration Setup>Mobile Administration' to configure access) but it works right out of "the box". I believe there is a $15/month charge to use an iPhone client in your production org, but its free to use in your developer org.
There is no Salesforce/iPhone SDK that I'm aware of but there are AppExchange apps (search for iPhone) that are free (and unsupported) that provide a useful starting point for adding additional functionality to the SFDC iPhone client (think webapps). Basically you create Visualforce pages (using a CSS tailored to the device), make them "moblie ready" and they'll appear in the SFDC iPhone client. We've had some success using the Image Browser & Capture for iPhone and BlackBerry as a starting point. We used it because it has a JS library that will pull the GPS coordinates off the iPhone.
Good luck!
Does the native iPhone salesforce application expose a "URL Scheme" see:
http://developer.apple.com/iphone/library/featuredarticles/iPhoneURLScheme_Reference/Introduction/Introduction.html
that would allow me to call this app from my native application?