You're reading from Getting Started with ResearchKit Enter the era of medical research using mobile devices with the help of this guide on ResearchKit!

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2016

Publisher

ISBN-13 9781785889172

Length 136 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Swift

Tools

iOS

Concepts

iOS Development

Authors (2):

Dhanush Balachandran

Edward Cessna

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Table of Contents (10) Chapters

Preface

1. Getting Started FREE CHAPTER

2. ResearchKit Hello World

3. Building Surveys

4. ResearchKit Informed Consent

5. Active Tasks

6. Navigable and Custom Tasks

7. Backend Service

8. Where to Go from Here

Index

Hello World App

Let's get started on building the Hello World app.

Create project

Following are the steps to create simple Xcode application:

Firstly, note that we will be using Xcode 7 and Swift 2.0 throughout this book and then open Xcode:
Create a new HelloWorldRK project as shown in the following image:

Checkout ResearchKit from GitHub

Open the terminal app and cd in the HelloWorldRK folder, where the HelloWorldRK.xcodeproj file is located. Type the following command to check ResearchKit from the GitHub repository:

git clone https://github.com/ResearchKit/ResearchKit.git ResearchKit

Tip

In case you are using Git for version control of your project, it is recommended to check ResearchKit as a Git submodule. You can use the following command. You can learn more about Git submodules at https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Tools-Submodules:

git submodule add https://github.com/ResearchKit/ResearchKit.git ResearchKit

Import ResearchKit

Open the ResearchKit folder in Finder, drag and drop ResearchKit...

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