WordPress for iOS - Under the Hood

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WordPress for iOS Under the Hood 360iDev 2015 Aaron Douglas

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About Me Aaron Douglas Milwaukee, WI USA Mobile Developer for Automattic Inc. Prior life Enterprise Java @astralbodies

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What’s we’re talking about Purpose of the App Problems To Solve Technologies Used Architecture Development Process What’s Missing Contributing

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Purpose of the App

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App Walkthrough ﬁ

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Problems to Solve

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Multiple Endpoints WordPress.com WordPress.org XML-RPC REST API v1, v2 Jetpack Plugin from WordPress.com

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Inherited Tech Debt Original contractors No real planning Small team/contributor base

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Web Content Reader - Rendering Editor - Creating & Rendering Markdown Server-side Plugins

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Ofﬂine Mode Synchronization Stability Consistency Conﬂict Resolution

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Localization Common strings GlotPress (http://translate.wordpress.org) RtL support Calendars, dates, times

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Dates/Time Makes Me Stabby http://stabby.today

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Technologies Used

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Project Dependencies CocoaPods Xcode or AppCode Git WordPress.com OAuth2

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Architecture

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Data Model (some of it) WPAccount (0..n) Blog (0..n) Blog (0..n) Post Page BasePost AbstractPost ReaderPost Media

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Service Layers View Controller Local Service Persistence Remote Service Interwebs

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BlogService LocalCoreDataService BlogServiceRemote BlogServiceRemoteREST BlogServiceRemoteXMLRPC NSManagedObjectContext

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Component Pods WordPress-Editor-iOS WordPressCom-Stats-iOS WordPressCom-Analytics-iOS WordPress-Shared-iOS MediaPicker-iOS

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The Code

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Development Process

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Developers Automattic Outside Contributors

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Development Process Three week iterations Planning … well … Three week testing/stablization - HockeyApp enterprise builds Git Flow GitHub Issues

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What’s Missing

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What’s Missing WordPressKit More Service Layers Re-evaluate callback paradigm with new Swift techniques Share Extension Watch App

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WordPressKit Full-blown SDK for WP integration Authentication, Authorization Every action (post, edit, commenting, etc) Reminiscent of Parse SDK Some day :)

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Contributing

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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

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Questions?

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Contact Twitter: @astralbodies GitHub: astralbodies WordPress.org Slack: astralbodies E-mail: [email protected]

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