Simple app for iPhone (Turn LED on/off)

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I would like to make a simple app for my iPhone, where I can turn a LED on/off. I have made the simple example “Controlling LEDs over the Internet” and can control the LED using a terminal program.

I can’t figure out how to make the iPhone send API request??? Is there a method in Xcode I can use? or is there another way of doing it.

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Hey there, you can look at the iOS-app source code for reference:

https://github.com/spark/ios-app :wink:

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Thanks

Isn’t there a very very simple example out there, the Thinker app is a bit complex for my limited Xcode experience :wink:

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Finally I solved the problem :frowning:

#define deviceID @"<your device id>"
#define token @"<your device token>"

if(theSwitch.isOn) //turn LED on
    {
        NSURL *url = [NSURL URLWithString:[NSString stringWithFormat:@"https://api.spark.io/v1/devices/%@/led",deviceID]];
        NSMutableURLRequest *postRequest = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL: url cachePolicy: NSURLRequestReloadIgnoringCacheData timeoutInterval: 60.0];
        [postRequest setValue:@"application/x-www-form-urlencoded" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Content-Type"];
        [postRequest setHTTPMethod:@"POST"];
    
    NSString *command = @"l1,HIGH";
    NSString *bodyData = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"access_token=%@&params=%@",token,command];
    [postRequest setHTTPBody:[NSData dataWithBytes:[bodyData UTF8String] length:strlen([bodyData UTF8String])]];
    
    [NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:postRequest queue:[NSOperationQueue mainQueue] completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, NSData *data, NSError *connectionError)
     {
         if (!connectionError)
         {
           
         }
         else
         {
           
         }
     }];    
}
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I made a VERY simple app, for the CONTROL LEDS OVER THE 'NET example, but I don’t know where to share it :slight_smile: If someone wanted to play with it…

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Now on GitHub :slight_smile: Hope that someone will find it useful…

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It might be useful to add a link to the relevant GitHub page. That place is rather big :wink:

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Yeah please post the Github link because I’m starting iOS development myself and that would be a huge leap forward :smiley: and a good chance to give back to the community!

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I made an App to work with my project, shared here: http://community.spark.io/t/sparkcore-microview-https-post-interaction/6425
Scroll to the bottom of the first post, and you can find a dropbox link to an Xcode project archive. You will need to edit the XYZViewController.h file with your device ID and Access code.

Let me know if this is useful

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Uhh sorry :slight_smile:

Remember it’s only a proof of concept project, I haven’t done anything to the GUI and the two button event handlers do the same, only the params are different. I did this on purpose, so the beginner didn’t got lost in fancy functionality

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@kelle also wanted to include a quick reminder that if your goal is simply to toggle an LED on and off over the net, you can always use the default Tinker app as an easy stand-in as a remote control :smile:

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I know but I want to make my own app and learn how to do it.

Where is the fun in just using the tinker app :wink:

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I wrote a library to assist in iOS development for the Spark. It also has an example of turning an LED on/off: https://github.com/hoffmanjon/SparkCoreIOS

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