Chipotle Gets an A An iPhone Development Experience

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Chipotle Gets an AAn iPhone Development
Experience

• RC Johnson
• Nick Niehoff
• Kim-Lan Tran
• Ryan Thomas

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Initial Goal

• Write a burrito ordering app
• Wanted to release to App Store
• Chipotle had their own in development
• Decided not to pursue due to legal reasons

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New idea

• Web service to check grade
• Use iPhone app to display grade
• Login with student idea and password
• Same structure if we were to make the burrito
  ordering app.

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Structure

• MySQL database hosted on server
• Launch iPhone app that prompts user
• Input student id
• Input password
• Sends to server
• Server
• Accepts or declines
• Sends invalid login, or Grade information

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iPhone app

• Objective-C
• UI built with Xcode
• No other way
• Sends request over HTTP
• Receives and parses XML to retrieve
• GPA
• Transcript

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MySQL

• Stores grade information
• Student ID
• Password stored as SHA-1
• GPA
• Grades
• More can be added

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Server/PHP

• Accepts HTML request
• Apache server
• Parses username and password fields
• Formats response in XML
• Searches database for student ID and password
• Decline response sent if password or student ID
  not found
• Grade sent if found

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iPhone Deployment

• Get developer account
• Create team
• Generate a certificate for the developer
• Register your device
• Create an App ID and link it to Xcode project
• Develop Provisioning profile and download to
  phone

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Issues

• Building database
• Learning Objective-C
• None had experience
• Learning to use Xcodes IDE
• Learning to use Interface Builder
• Learning Objective-C

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Wrap Up

• Successfully implemented web service on iPhone
• Failed to due Chipotle app
• Possibly to lofty
• NDA
• Implemented app of similar structure

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Future

• Chipotle
• If NDAs were provide structure could be used for
  Chipotle app
• Improve UI
• Grade
• Add more fields i.e. individual classes.

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• Questions???