The Commerce Reference Store iOS Universal App (CRS-IUA) is an iOS app built on top of Oracle Commerce Reference Store which provides an extension to the Commerce Reference Store backend in the form of an Oracle Commerce Platform server module, demonstrates many of the capabilities of the Oracle Web Commerce platform. This app is a concrete example of how you can leverage Oracle Commerce Platform REST Web Services to make data available to a client application.

An iOS universal application is a single application that is designed to work for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad devices, but creating it requires more effort than creating an app for a single device. For example, since each device has different screen sizes, much of your window, view, and view controller code for iPad will be different from code written for iPhone and iPod touch.

CRS-IUA also provides an Objective-C REST client that encapsulates the server invocations made from the iOS client. This encapsulation hides many of the app’s inherent complexities from the implementer.