App templating - Speaker Deck

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App templating One core project, several apps @AdrienCouque - @Applidium - @The_Minh

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What brought us to make app templates? One project can become multiple applications.

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What brought us to make app templates? One project can become multiple applications.

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Customisation needs Features ● Timetables ● Itinerary search ● Maps ● Around me ● Traffic info ● … 4

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Customisation needs 5 Itinerary search Around me Traffic info

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Customisation needs Look ● Colours ● Pictograms ● Fonts ● … 6

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Customisation needs 7 TADAO Ametis Bibus

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Customisation needs Content ● Various back-end technologies 8

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Real-time Theoretical Customisation needs 9

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App template? ● An efficient way to replicate (native) apps ● Same core codebase ● Allows you to adjust: ○ features ○ look ○ content 10

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Criteria for an app template Is your project suitable for the app template format? 11

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Criteria for an app template Is your project suitable for the app template format? 12

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LIFECYCLE An app template is not trivial and requires you to organise consequently.

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● Reliability ● Time-to-market Industrialisation 14 ● Scalability ● Overall Product approach

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Product team 15 Build phase + roadmap

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Operation team 16 Deployment of apps

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Teamwork 17 Staged rollout + quick iterations

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LESSONS LEARNED Little app template will grow big!

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A longer conception phase… 19 Make the right choices with all the target apps in mind

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… for a large-scale impact! 20 Time spent is then amortised with the number of variations

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Extra care while designing ● Functional & graphic specificities should be thoroughly explored ahead of developments ● Specificities should only rely on a configuration ● APIs should be consistent across all apps 21