WordPress Mobile Apps - WordCamp San Antonio 2015

An overview of the mobile apps maintained by WordPress.org, how to contribute, and a bit about the architecture focusing on the iOS app.

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1. WORDPRESS.ORG MOBILE APPS WordCamp San Antonio 2015 Aaron Douglas
2. ABOUT ME • Aaron Douglas • Milwaukee • Mobile Developer for Automattic Inc. • Prior life Enterprise Java • @astralbodies
3. WHAT’S WE’RE TALKING ABOUT • What’s Out There • History • Contribution • App Architecture • Specifics about the iOS App • What’s Coming Next
4. WHAT’S OUT THERE • WordPress Android • WordPress iOS • Sub-projects: WordPress-iOS-Editor, WordPressCom-Stats-iOS, WordPressCom- Analytics-iOS + many others
5. HISTORY • July 2008 - WordPress for iPhone OS 2.0 - v1.0 • February 2010 - WordPress for Android 1.5 - v1.0
 Acquired wpToGo • Blackberry & Windows Mobile as well
6. SOME INTERESTING STATS • 60% of users are only using a self-hosted setup • 1,200k people a month (iOS 700, Android 500) • 24/26 seconds average session length
7. CONTRIBUTE
8. WHAT TO HELP WITH • Bugs - reporting and fixing • Review & Testing of other Pull Requests • New features
9. CODE • Hosted all on GitHub • https://github.com/wordpress-mobile
10. THE PROCESS • Assign yourself to the issue • Fork the repository • Create a branch • Fix the problem • Submit a Pull Request
11. COMMUNICATION • GitHub Issues • http://make.wordpress.org/mobile • Slack Chat • https://make.wordpress.org/chat/
12. BIG PIECES
13. BIG PIECES • Networking / Synchronization • Authentication • Data Access • Local/Offline Persistence • User Interface
14. NETWORKING • XML-RPC • RESTful API • Core • WordPress.com • Jetpack
15. WORDPRESS.COM FEATURES • Site Stats • Push Notifications • Simperium-Synced Notes • Reader • Image & Video processing • https://developer.wordpress.com/apps/
16. IOS APP ARCHITECTURE • Persistence - Core Data, Simperium • Service Layer • Dependencies - CocoaPods • Separate libraries for stats, editor, metrics
17. IOS APP WALKTHROUGH
18. A NOTE ABOUT SWIFT • Challenges • Holding off • Unit tests
19. WHAT’S COMING • New stats interface • Visual editor in iOS (Android is next!) • Incremental architectural improvements
20. QUESTIONS?
21. CONTACT • Twitter: @astralbodies • GitHub: astralbodies • WordPress.org Slack: astralbodies • E-mail: aaron@automattic.com