Description link: http://sf2010.drupal.org/conference/sessions/developing-apps-iphoneipadandroid-using-drupal-base-system

1. Mobile App Development
with Drupal as the Base
System
Sumit @sumitk
Kataria @pava
#CivicActions
#DrupalCon

3. Overview

4. Nuts & Bolts

5. http://www.flickr.com/photos/coldtaxi/426162862/ by coldtaxi

6. Drupal as a Base for
Mobile?

7. What We Looked At
★ PhoneGap
★ Titanium Mobile

8. PhoneGap
★ Webkit-based
★ Open Source
★ Limited Access to Native
Functionality
★ Slower Performance

9. ★ Open Titanium Mobile
Source - Apache 2.0
License
★ Build Native Apps - 9.x+
★ Very Fast in Performance
★ Modular Approach to Add
Functionality
★ Lot of APIs Available and Ready to
Us
★ Support and Partner Programs
Available

10. Titanium Mobile
A Free and Open Source
application development platform
for creating native mobile
application experiences using
Javascript, Titanium API, HTML &
CSS.

11. Drupal
Drupal is a Free and Open Source
Content Management System that
allows users to easily publish,
manage and organize a wide
variety of content on a website.

13. But Why Develop for
Mobile?

14. ★ 51,150,000 iPhones sold to date
★ Android now runs on 34 devices
★ 60,000 Android devices
&100,000 more iPhones sold
each day!
★ 40% of all Internet traffic will be
by Mobile in 2013
April 2010

15. But Isn’t Mobile
Development Expensive?

16. “Most apps take at least six months
of full-time work and cost
between $20,000 and $150,000
to develop.”
- Forrester Research
Source: http://www.newsweek.com/id/216788/page/

17. Titanium Mobile is Free (as in Beer)
Users can pay for additional
support.
You can get your App out in
development time of 2-3 weeks
with 1-2 developers.

18. Why Use Drupal to Manage
Your Mobile Application
Data?

19. ★ It is the most reliable CMS in the
world
★ Manages all your data and
content
★ And meta data and users...
★ And search needs and geo-data...
★ All in a very reliable way
★ And besides...

20. ★ You are already using it

21. What You’ll Be Programming
★ Javascript
★ Titanium API
★ WebViews
★ HTML 5
★ CSS 3

23. How Do You Use Drupal to
Manage Your Mobile
Application's Data?

24. Services API
Enables Drupal to act as a
webservice to accept and send data
in a secure way.
http://drupal.org/project/services

25. Services API Consists of 3
Parts
★ Services
★ Servers
★ Authentication Layer

26. Services
Services are methods intended
for consumption by remote
applications.
e.g. user.get user.save node.get
node.save views.get etc.

27. Servers
Servers are ways in which a Service
could be called from remote site.
e.g. xmlrpc (ships with Services
core), json, jsonrpc, rest etc.

28. Authentication Methods
★ Keys (Services core)
★ OAuth

29. How To Get Started
★ Install iPhone SDK (Mac OS only)
★ Install Titanium Developer (Mac Win
Linux)
★ Create account on Titanium
Developer
★ Download and install Services and
json_server modules from drupal.org

30. Data, Users Services API
Drupal
TI Network API
Titanium Framework

31. Titanium API
★
Acceloromete ★ Media
r ★ Network
★ App ★ Platform
★ Contacts ★ UI
★ Database ★ UI.iPhone
★ Facebook ★ Ui.iPad
★ Geolocation ★ Utils
★ Gesture ★ Yahoo (YUI)
★ Map ★ JSON
★ XML

32. Make a Drupal view.get Service Call

36. Demo

37. Resources
http://www.drupal.org
http://drupal.org/project/
services
http://drupal.org/project/
json_server
http://www.appcelerator.com
http://
developer.appcelerator.com
http://github.com/appcelerator

38. Contact
Sumit Kataria Aaron Pava
sumit@civicactions.co aaron@civicactions.co
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@sumitk @pava
More info will be
@ http://civicactions.com/blog
@ http://sumitk.net
CivicActions.co
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