How to add search to your iOS app with Elastic App Search

This is a short and sweet, to-the-point, tutorial series that shows how to add search functionality to an iOS app using Elasticsearch for free! More specifically, in this two-part blog series, we will be creating an iOS app that uses Elastic App Search for searching a movie database. By the end of this tutorial, whether you need to search through a small movie database or through petabytes of cloud metrics, you’ll have the knowledge you need to build an amazing search experience for iOS mobile users. Note: This tutorial is based on Elasticsearch version 7.12.x Setup Elastic Cloud trial

Navigate to https://www.elastic.co/cloud/.
Choose Start free trial.
Sign up and login.
Choose Start your free trial.
Select the Enterprise Search option.
Choose to Expand the settings.
Choose version 7.12.x.
Choose Create deployment.
Download the credentials.

Download dataset Navigate to https://www.kaggle.com/edgartanaka1/tmdb-movies-an.... Download the dataset. Unzip the data. Setup App Search Once your deployment has been created, choose Open Enterprise Search. Select Launch App Search. Type the engine name movies Choose Continue Ingest data

Select Upload a JSON file.
Drag and drop one of the movie files from the downloaded dataset.
Choose Continue.
Once the data is indexed successfully, choose Visit the Dashboard.
In the list of engines, choose movies.
In the sidebar, choose Documents to see the document you indexed.

Configure Schema In the sidebar, choose Schema. Set the following fields to be of type Number using the drop-down options on the right:

    revenue
    popularity
    vote_count
    budget
    runtime
    vote_average

Set the following fields to be of type Date using the drop-down options on the right:

    release_date

Choose Confirm Types

Bulk ingest data In the sidebar, choose Credentials. Note the following fields as we will use these later:

    API Endpoint
    private-key

In your command line terminal run: git clone git@github.com:elastic/tutorials.git

    Github Link: https://github.com/elastic/tutorials

Open tutorials/app-search/app_search_ingest.py in your favorite text editor
from elastic_enterprise_search import AppSearch

import glob, os import json app_search = AppSearch( "app_search_api_endpoint", http_auth="api_private_key" ) response = [] print("Uploading movies to App Search...") os.chdir("movies_directory") for file in glob.glob("*.json"): with open(file, 'r') as json_file: try: response = app_search.index_documents(engine_name="movies",documents=json.load(json_file)) print(".", end='', flush=True) except: print("Fail!") print(response) break In the python script, replace:

    app_search_api_endpoint with the API Endpoint from the credentials tab in your Enterprise Search deployment
    api_private_key with the private-key from the credentials tab in your Enterprise Search deployment
    movies_directory with the directory path of the unzipped movies data

        Example directory: "/Users/jsmith/Downloads/archive/movies/movies"

In your command line terminal, install the Elastic Enterprise Search Python library

    pip3 install elastic-enterprise-search

Run the python script

    python3 ./tutorials/app-search/app_search_ingest.py

Build iOS appWonderful! 🎉 You should now be ingesting documents into your App Search instance. To build the iOS app, see part 2 of this blog series. https://www.elastic.co/blog/how-to-add-search-to-your-ios-app-part-1