Friday, June 26, 2015

Mobile App Development with Zend Studio

The world has turned mobile. This is not new, and it should therefore be no surprise to anyone that the results of the 2015 DevPulse survey by Zend show that a vast majority of PHP developers are working on, or intend to work on, mobile apps.

Mobile app development poses many challenges for developers, one of which is tying in the front end of the mobile application with the back-end web service APIs.

This tutorial describes how to simultaneously create, test and modify both the front and back end of a modern mobile app using Zend Studio’s mobile development features.

The steps described in this article were performed using Zend Studio 12.5 and a Zend Server 8 AWS instance. You can, of course, use any PHP server of your choice, local or remote, to host the API project.

Step 1: Creating a Cloud Connected Mobile Project

Your first step is to create a new Cloud Connected Mobile (CCM) project in your Zend Studio workspace.
A CCM project contains both a hybrid mobile project defining the front-end of your mobile app and a project containing all the back-end APIs.

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by Daniel Berman via SitePoint

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