You’ve been asking for it and here it is - DataExplorer for iOS now supports data editing! It took us some time to deliver this capability (we wanted to do it right) and we hope you'll be able to leverage this new functionality in your next iPhone/iPad app.
If your OData service supports editing, you and your users can:
• Insert new entities into both top level and detail data sources.
• Edit the following data types in form fields: text (including multiline text), number, boolean, date/time, duration, and enumeration.
• Delete an entity from the top level data source.
• Delete a reference to an entity from the detail data source.
• Link an entity to different entity (for instance, a supplier can be specified for a product) using a customizable entity picker.
To enable data editing for a form screen, you will set a single property: “Data Editing”. You can disable editing for specific fields by deactivating the “Data Editing” option for those fields. DataExplorer automatically determines your ability to insert/delete data (and displays the appropriate UI) based on the “Data Editing” option of a form screen.
You can play with this new functionality in the new “Data Editing” sample which supports both iPad and iPhone. Please let us know what you think (good or bad). Do you need additional data editing functionality to make DataExplorer your go-to solution for iOS? We appreciate all your feedback.