Installation

What You Need Before You Can Begin

Before you can begin creating iOS applications with the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS, you will need a few things.

Machine Requirements

Development using the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS requires an Intel-based Macintosh running Snow Leopard (OS X 10.6.2 or higher) or Lion (OS X 10.7 or higher).

Apple's iOS SDK

If you are not one already, you will need to become a registered Apple developer. Apple requires this step before you're allowed to download the iOS SDK. To sign up, navigate to the registration page and enroll.

Once registered, you can then go to the iOS Dev Center, log in and download the iOS SDK onto your machine. The SDK contains documentation, frameworks, tools, and a simulator to help develop iOS applications. XCode (the developer toolset for iOS application development) is included in the download as well so you do not need to purchase any developer tools to build iOS applications - that is included in the enrollment fee.

You will need to use iOS SDK 4 or higher for developing applications. At the time of writing this document, iOS SDK 5.1 was the most recent version available and supported.

Note:

Beta and GM seed versions of the iOS SDK are generally not supported unless noted otherwise.

Regardless of the iOS SDK you use for development, you can still target your application for devices running an older supported iOS version by configuring your Xcode project's iOS Deployment Target build setting. Be sure to add runtime checks where appropriate to ensure that you use only those iOS features available on the target platform/device. If your application attempts to use iOS features not available on the device, your application may crash.

Device Requirements

Applications built with ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS can be run on iPhone 3G, iPhone 3GS, iPhone 4, iPhone 4S, iPod touch, iPad, and iPad 2 devices. These devices must be running iOS version 4 or higher. We strongly recommend that you test your applications on actual devices to ensure that they work as expected and perform well. Testing on the simulator alone does not provide a good measure of how the application will perform on the physical device.

Installing the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS

Once you have installed Apple's iOS SDK, you will need to download and install the ArcGIS Runtime SDK for iOS. This can be found at the Resource Center. Stepping through the install wizard installs the SDK components under ${HOME}/Library/SDKs/ArcGIS.

The API library, header files, and associated resources (images, etc) are installed as a framework called ArcGIS.framework

Note:

The ${HOME}/Library folder is hidden by default in Mac OS X Lion. You can issue the command chflags nohidden ~/Library/ in the terminal to unhide it.