Visão Geral

O Curso Create iPhone & iPad Apps Using FileMaker Pro & FileMaker Go, é voltado para aqueles que desejam aprender como usar o FileMaker Pro para criar aplicativos de banco de dados otimizados para o sistema operacional iOS e implantados usando FileMaker Go, a poderosa e gratuita tecnologia móvel da FileMaker. Inc. Inclui sessões sobre como implantar aplicativos de banco de dados no iPhone ou iPad, técnicas essenciais para otimizar bancos de dados para uso no FileMaker Go e técnicas de sincronização para gerenciar dados quando você precisar atualizar um arquivo hospedado com uma conexão de dados intermitente entre o arquivo implantado. e o remoto. O Curso Create iPhone & iPad Apps Using FileMaker Pro & FileMaker Go será útil tanto para desenvolvedores experientes do FileMaker que desejam implantar em dispositivos móveis iOS, quanto para aqueles que desejam uma ferramenta fácil de usar (FileMaker Pro) para criar um aplicativo móvel poderoso e sofisticado para uso em iPhones e iPad.

Pre-Requisitos

• Habilidades do FileMaker Pro até um nível intermediário.

Materiais

Conteúdo Programatico

Introduction to FileMaker Go

1. Purpose, Introduction and Overview
2. Transferring files to your iOS device (iPhone or iPad)
3. The Go Home Screen
4. The Go Application Settings
5. Using the File Browser; opening a local file; opening a Hosted File; deleting a local file
6. The Go application settings

Operational differences

1. Modes supported and not supported in Go/iOS
2. Menu Commands missing, in different locations or differently presented
3. iOS gestures - tapping to zoom and pinching to zoom
4. Avoiding the opening of multiple windows
5. Sorting differences
6. Other differences

Working with Data

1. iOS input styles – using the virtual keyboard
2. Typing inside a text field
3. How numbers are presented
4. How dates are entered
5. How images and other file types are inserted into Container fields
6. iOS specific benefits for container fields e.g. entering signatures and using the built in camera
7. Exporting options under iOS for container fields
8. Importing and exporting data and the differences from FileMaker Pro
9. Moving from field to field without a Tab key

Security and Background Behaviour

1. Security modules supported
2. Coping with interruptions – what happens in your Go app when the user presses the iPad or iPhone Home button
3. Script suspension
4. Restoring the previous state
5. Losing connectivity
6. Re-authentication options and the fmreauthenticate Extended Privilege

Designing Layouts for Mobile Use

1. Introduction and basics
2. Using the screen stencils
3. Using the Touch themes specifically designed for Go
4. Optimisation techniques – removing unnecessary fields e.g. fields for Quick Find, unnecessary calculation fields
5. Screen dimensions for iPad and iPhone
6. Suitable buttons sizes
7. Using FileMaker functions to determine the orientation of the iOS device
8. How to use the Autosize feature in Layout mode
9. Some differences in the display of value lists

Calculations and Scripting for FileMaker Go

1. Helpful Calculation Functions when designing Go solutions
2. Scripting with Go in mind – unsupported script steps you need to avoid
3. Detecting the Go platform through a script
4. Directing Go users to Go-appropriate layouts
5. The Allow User Abort script step in Go
6. Error Trapping For Unsupported Script Steps; Command is Unknown error; Command is Unavailable error
7. Useful features available in Go – dialling phone numbers and sending SMS text messages

Advanced Techniques

1. Introduction
2. Handing off complex routines
3. Transactional Scripting – how to cope with interruptions
4. Dealing cleanly with record creation and editing- committing all or zero related records rather than only some
5. Passing data between FileMaker Go and other iOS applications

Introduction to Data Synchronisation

1. Overview of the issues
2. Developing a sync strategy; using a connector file to link the deployed file in Go and the hosted file
3. What to do in the deployed FileMaker Go file
4. What to do in the connector file
5. What to do in the hosted file
6. Exchanging data
7. Processing changes
8. Coping with interrupted connectivity
9. Identifying records for synching
10. Opening and closing hosted files