WordPress for iOS - Under the Hood

A deep dive into the WordPress for iOS development cycle, app structure and problems we have to solve.

Given at 360iDev 2015 in Denver, CO.

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1. WordPress for iOS Under the Hood 360iDev 2015 Aaron Douglas
2. About Me Aaron Douglas Milwaukee, WI USA Mobile Developer for Automattic Inc. Prior life Enterprise Java @astralbodies
3. What’s we’re talking about Purpose of the App Problems To Solve Technologies Used Architecture Development Process What’s Missing Contributing
4. Purpose of the App
5. Text
6. App Walkthrough fi
7. Problems to Solve
8. Multiple Endpoints WordPress.com WordPress.org XML-RPC REST API v1, v2 Jetpack Plugin from WordPress.com
9. Inherited Tech Debt Original contractors No real planning Small team/contributor base
10. Web Content Reader - Rendering Editor - Creating & Rendering Markdown Server-side Plugins
11. Offline Mode Synchronization Stability Consistency Conflict Resolution
12. Localization Common strings GlotPress (http://translate.wordpress.org) RtL support Calendars, dates, times
13. Dates/Time Makes Me Stabby http://stabby.today
14. Technologies Used
16. Project Dependencies CocoaPods Xcode or AppCode Git WordPress.com OAuth2
17. Architecture
18. Data Model (some of it) WPAccount (0..n) Blog (0..n) Blog (0..n) Post Page BasePost AbstractPost ReaderPost Media
19. Service Layers View Controller Local Service Persistence Remote Service Interwebs
20. BlogService LocalCoreDataService BlogServiceRemote BlogServiceRemoteREST BlogServiceRemoteXMLRPC NSManagedObjectContext
21. Component Pods WordPress-Editor-iOS WordPressCom-Stats-iOS WordPressCom-Analytics-iOS WordPress-Shared-iOS MediaPicker-iOS
22. The Code
23. Development Process
24. Developers Automattic Outside Contributors
25. Development Process Three week iterations Planning … well … Three week testing/stablization - HockeyApp enterprise builds Git Flow GitHub Issues
26. What’s Missing
27. What’s Missing WordPressKit More Service Layers Re-evaluate callback paradigm with new Swift techniques Share Extension Watch App
28. WordPressKit Full-blown SDK for WP integration Authentication, Authorization Every action (post, edit, commenting, etc) Reminiscent of Parse SDK Some day :)
29. Contributing
30. Contributing GitHub https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Editor-iOS https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPressCom-Stats-iOS WordPress.org Make - http://make.wordpress.org/mobile WordPress.org Slack - http://chat.wordpress.org
31. Questions?
32. Contact Twitter: @astralbodies GitHub: astralbodies WordPress.org Slack: astralbodies E-mail: aaron@automattic.com
33. Thanks :) Please give feedback via the 360iDev app!