SalesForce on iOS login without using the SalesForce Webview?

Question

I'm creating an iPhone application that uses salesforce as it's server-side data component, I need to access the database from the application to retrieve data for whichever user logs into the app, to do this I need to authenticate with Sales force.

I'm using the Rest API Template that was available in XCode after installing SalesForce, but I keep getting this:

Is there any way I can login to salesforce programmatically? I'd like our use of Salesforce to be 'behind the scenes' so to speak, so that our users never have to directly interact with salesforce themselves, is there any way to do this?

Answer 1

That looks like the OAuth challenge. You should be able to bypass this by providing a Session Id. In order to get a Session ID, you have to login with the user's username and password. You can use the SOAP API for this.

Answer 2

Yes you can do the login behind the scenes.

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