iOS SDK Overview

forter's ios sdk allows forter to receive important behavioral and cyber events that contribute greatly to our model's accuracy and ability to identify fraud and suspicious activity throughout the customer journey and during the checkout event what you’ll find in the overview section the overview section tells you everything you need to know about how to integrate with forter's ios sdk and provides some insights into how things work “under the hood” you can find information about everything from an explanation of how forter manages to be both automated and accurate, to the technical integration steps, to reassurance about availability and security, and more terminology fortersdk the sdk provided by forter which enables easy event submission from your ios application to forter's servers event an occurrence / an interaction from the user that is considered a change in the application's current state an event could be any interaction from the user / a change in the environment performance and testing the forter sdk is designed to have minimal impact on the merchant's application all events are sent to forter a synchronously via a queue outside the main thread, so they do not affect customer experience we ensure the memory and network usage are optimized by enforcing queue size and communication policies, both of which are configurable to ensure stability, the forter sdk is thoroughly tested using industry best practices for automatic testing including unit testing performance profiling (memory, cpu, battery and network) stress testing e2e (end to end) tests on a wide variety of devices (using appium, amazon device farm, and google firebase) the sdk is deployed on live applications in the itunes app store integration steps installation we strongly recommend installing the fortersdk through one of the dependency managers docid 8jygwgmwzqbtqsslocs7m , though manual installation docid\ oxnqfb08opzypr7rez9tg is also available start the sdk initialize the fortersdk through ios application delegate docid 8z5 ytpsvcxe d7jo4djm include fortermobileuid docid\ d0qjszjlgrgnoydhtnkdp in all forter api requests send the latest token generated by the forter sdks to your backend when an order is placed via your native mobile application this will allow forter to connect behavioral and cyber data collected on the mobile applications to the order data sent from your backend send location updates docid\ mos4bk5zd2lcwaskdanhc if your app has gained the user's location permission, forter strongly recommends that you provide us with this data on every location update ios webview docid\ h97q1sumo75auh1cihlai integration for apps that incorporate hybrid or mobile browsers, forter offers a webview integration solution make sure to also include the forter javascript for webview/browser based components of your app