Table Planner: building a gesture driven app to explore, the drag-and-drop apis, iPad multitasking and the Firebase toolset.

A short iPad app demo and discussion of the journey to build it (so far).

Transcript

1. Andy Bell @andybel Table Planner for iPad
2. Origin of app ideas #
3. December 2016, Warsaw /
5. - arrange tables in relation to each other - seeing guest infomation at a glance - rearrange guests on & between the tables
7. Planning the app #
8. user personas /
9. PERSONAS RYAN MATHIS ▸ Engaged to Emma ▸ age 29 ▸ He is a web designer. ▸ Planning an autumn wedding for 120 guests at a country side hotel. 9
10. PERSONAS EMMA QUINN ▸ Engaged to Ryan ▸ age 28 ▸ She is a fashion journalist. ▸ Planning an autumn wedding for 120 guests at a country side hotel. 10
12. user goals /
13. TABLE-PLANNER USER GOALS: ARRANGING WEDDING GUESTS Ryan needs to plan a guest seating arrangement for their 120 wedding guests together with Emma. The couple want the seating arrangement to be comfortable for all guests but also enable people to make new connections.
15. Building the app #
16. drag & drop apis /
17. iPad multitasking /
19. Firebase # Going server less with…
20. Backend database - Firestore /
21. Push notifications - cloud messaging /
22. Server-side event handling - cloud functions /
23. Deeplinking & redirects - dynamic links /
24. Crash reporting, Analytics & more /
25. Let’s take a look… # demo time
26. Andy Bell @andybel Thank you!