iOS eCommerce App Development with Parse / Edition 1

by Liangjun Jiang

Overview

iOS eCommerce App Development with Parse uses a real-world app example to teach you how to build a complete eCommerce iPhone app powered by Parse - the most popular and powerful Platform As A Service (BaaS) provider.

In this comprehensive guide you will learn every step: collecting requirements, architecting the app, designing the visual interface, creating the data model, managing products and the shopping cart, processing the payment, and fulfilling the order - always with secure best practice in mind. You will also learn how to manage user account creation, login with Facebook and Twitter, verify users via email, pay with Stripe and Apple Pay, send email with Mailgun, and manage customer payment methods and order history.

Intermediate knowledge of iOS development and object-oriented programming is assumed, and basic knowledge of e-commerce principles will be of benefit too. The author is a successful iPhone app developer whose real-world experience is now brought to print. Master iOS eCommerce app development with Parse using this book today.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781484213186
Publisher:	Apress
Publication date:	11/04/2015
Edition description:	1st ed.
Pages:	203
Product dimensions:	7.01(w) x 10.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Liangjun Jiang is a mobile software engineer from Austin, Texas. He founded Buy From Farm - an organic produce marketplace, developed iPhone and android app for this project. He had Ph. D. in Electrical Engineering at University of Central Florida, M.S. and B.E from Zhejiang University, China. His software experience has led him to utilize many different technologies including Objective-C, Java, javascript and, of course, iOS and android. Aside from hacking on code, he enjoys spending time with his family, running, golfing and playing tennis.

Table of Contents

1. Chapter One: Parse Fundamentals

2. Chapter Two: Our eCommerce iPhone App

3. Chapter Three: Security Overview

4. Chapter Four: Set Up Your Parse Project

5. Chapter Five: Architecturing Our App

6. Chapter Six: Creating Users

7. Chapter Seven: Presenting Products

8. Chapter Eight: Building a Shopping Cart

9. Chapter Nine: Checking Out

10. Chapter Ten: Managing Payment Methods and Order History

11. Chapter Eleven: An Admin Control Panel