Building Unsplash for iOS

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Building Unsplash for iOS OLIVIER COLLET. COCOAHEADS MONTREAL. 20.09.2018

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Ryan Loughlin

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Unsplash • Beautiful photos you can download for free and use for anything. • Gifted by the most generous community of photographers.

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The process Patrick Schneider

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Our mobile strategy • We’re a platform that helps creative people. • The transition from computers to mobile devices is starting. • It’s the beginning of this transition. • We’re early, and not in a rush.

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Valdemaras D.

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An app for iPad • iOS 11 was a big step for iPad • iPad is slowly replacing computers for creative work • Drag & drop + photos = ! • Why not for iPhone too?

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Jakob Owens

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iOS app First attempt • Browse photos • Browse collections • Search • A dedicated wallpaper section • Drag & drop

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George Desipris

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iOS app October 2017

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BORING! " Charles Deluvio

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iOS app Simplified • Cut cut cut • Keep the basics: • New photos • Featured collections • Search

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Mert Atakan

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iOS app March 2018

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iOS app March 2018

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Samuele Errico Piccarini

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Launch April 5, 2018 • No profiles • No authentication • No ability to like or collect photos • No photo upload

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Fabian Struwe

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The team • Mikael - Big picture + vision • Luke - Big picture + roadmap • Kirill & Charles - Design • Olivier - Development

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Ian Keefe

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Planning updates • 6-week cycles • Release an update every cycle • Photographers profiles (released) • Photo submission (upcoming)

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Some tech stuff Carlos Irineu da Costa

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On-demand resources • Images for the on-boarding flow • Downloaded when downloading the app • Discarded once the on-boarding is completed

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Nathan Dumlao

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Storyboards • Best code is no code • A storyboard per main flow • Wrote a script to use identifiers as constants in the code

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Donald Giannatti

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Dependencies not welcome! • Facebook login using a WebView, no FB SDK • Re-wrote the 1Password extension in Swift • Wrote a Swift tracker for Snowplow (analytics) • Remaining dependencies: • Reachability (will keep… maybe) • CoreAnimator (will ditch)

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Chris Fuller

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Networking • No shared API client • Each request is independent • Requests are subclasses of Operation

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David Emrich

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View Controllers • No coordinator or flow controller • PhotosViewController is used a lot • As a child view controller sometimes • Remains generic, a datasource controls its content

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Ryan Stone

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Custom transitions • Tons of work! • Currently spaghetti code, needs to be refactored • TONS of work!

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Mark Cataldo

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Drag & drop • Drag to other apps is easy • Receiving a drop is a bit more complicated • Custom Drag to Download widget • Inspired by Things • Pythagorean theorem #

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Pythagorean theorem #

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Nathan Peterson

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Challenges • Testing on-demand resources • Those crazy custom transitions

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Stats Chris Liverani

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Ting Tian

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Downloads / Source

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Ryan McManimie

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Devices / per week Sessions per device / per week

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$ Olivier Collet @ocollet