Introducing Skateway 2.0

Presented at Ottawa Cocoaheads, 09 January, 2014

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1. Skateway 2.0
   Chuck Shnider
   twitter: @cshnider
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2. 3
   years old
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncc-ccn/6516617313/in/photostream/
   

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3. 1.0 – 1.0.2
   •Winter, 2010/2011
   •Screen-scraping in-app
   •Update app when conditions are broken
   

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4. 1.5 – 1.6
   •Winter 2011/2012
   •Own Server
   •Wizard of Oz
   •Small Visual Fixes
   

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5. benign neglect
   

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6. time for a reboot…
   •iOS7 only
   •visual refresh
   •modern codebase
   •only a few model classes were ported at all
   

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7. UI Changes
   http://www.flickr.com/photos/56879526@N03/5390243329/
   

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9. UI Changes
   •Get rid of all adornment
   •Maybe went too far
   •Get rid of UITabBar on iPhone
   •Schedule pressure!
   

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12. Optimize 

    for 

    4-inch iPhone
    

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14. French
    Localization
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/ncc-ccn/8044322027/
    

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15. Localization
    •Used “base” localization support
    •Not magic, you still need scripts!
    •Text substitution client-side
    •Sometimes need to detect UI language
    

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17. Character Encodings is hard!!!
    

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18. Background
    Refresh
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/56879526@N03/5390254551/
    

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19. Background Refresh
    •An experiment
    •Perceived Speed Increase
    •Helpful for offline viewing
    •Background Fetch vs. Silent Push
    

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20. Seasonality
    •Should consume ZERO power when skating
    season is over.
    •Can you climb back out of the ghetto?
    •Signalling mechanisms for the OS
    • UIApplication 

    -setMinimumBackgroundFetchInterval:
    

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21. 206.248.130.215 - - [09/Jan/2014:01:22:15 +0000] "GET /
    skateway/conditions.json?bg=1&hw=iPhone5%2C1&os=7.0.4 HTTP/
    1.1" 200 543 "-" "Skateway/2.0 (iPhone; iOS 7.0.4; Scale/
    2.00)"
    Treat as an Experiment
    206.248.130.215 - - [09/Jan/2014:01:22:15 +0000] "GET /
    skateway/conditions.json?bg=0&hw=iPhone5%2C1&os=7.0.4 HTTP/
    1.1" 304 0 "-" "Skateway/2.0 (iPhone; iOS 7.0.4; Scale/
    2.00)"
    

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