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iOS

Posted by Joshua Hardy
Joshua Hardy
17,317 Points

How do I connect my iOS app to a server that is not CloudKit?

If I would like to have my app hosted on a "cloud" or server that is not CloudKit? How would I go about that?

1 Answer

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points
Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

Joshua, are you wanting to store data outside the app? If so you will need to either build your own server side API like Parse Server (parse.com) or use something like Google's firebase.

Joshua Hardy
Joshua Hardy
17,317 Points

Would GoDaddy have something similar?

Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points
Andrew Shook
Andrew Shook
31,709 Points

To the best of my knowledge, GoDaddy doesn't offer a service like this out of the box. Firebase is a preconfigured solution though, and as long as you don't make to many API calls I believe it's free. If this is something you need for a production app (i.e. something you intend to put in the app store), then I suggest you look into setting up parse server since the only thing it will cost you is server space.