iPhone application database: MySQL & SQLite

Question

Hi I am a student with little knowledge about iPhone application and its database. However, I am tasked to develop an iPhone application for a company. This application must require users to do registering as member and reflecting their member points.

Currently, the company is using MySQL as their database for their current ongoing. Whereas, after the implementation of the iPhone application which database should I use? I am aware that iPhone only supports SQLite but how can I fetch the data from their current MySQL and make a linkage so it would be centralized and not having 2 individual database?

Answer 1

It sounds like your bosses threw you into very deep water without knowing how to swim, first.

There are a number of ways to answer your question, and I found a few related questions on various sites that might help you.

How to access remote MySql database from iPhone App

Connecting to a remote MySQL Database

Access mysql remote database from iPhone

You might want to start with just writing a small, non-database-using iPhone app to start with and then once you get the hang of it, then reach out into wild world of talking to remote databases.

hope this helps!