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WORDPRESS.ORG MOBILE APPS WordCamp San Antonio 2015 Aaron Douglas

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ABOUT ME • Aaron Douglas • Milwaukee • Mobile Developer for Automattic Inc. • Prior life Enterprise Java • @astralbodies

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WHAT’S WE’RE TALKING ABOUT • What’s Out There • History • Contribution • App Architecture • Specifics about the iOS App • What’s Coming Next

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WHAT’S OUT THERE • WordPress Android • WordPress iOS • Sub-projects: WordPress-iOS-Editor, WordPressCom-Stats-iOS, WordPressCom- Analytics-iOS + many others

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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

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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

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CONTRIBUTE

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WHAT TO HELP WITH • Bugs - reporting and fixing • Review & Testing of other Pull Requests • New features

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CODE • Hosted all on GitHub • https://github.com/wordpress-mobile

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THE PROCESS • Assign yourself to the issue • Fork the repository • Create a branch • Fix the problem • Submit a Pull Request

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COMMUNICATION • GitHub Issues • http://make.wordpress.org/mobile • Slack Chat • https://make.wordpress.org/chat/

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BIG PIECES

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BIG PIECES • Networking / Synchronization • Authentication • Data Access • Local/Offline Persistence • User Interface

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NETWORKING • XML-RPC • RESTful API • Core • WordPress.com • Jetpack

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WORDPRESS.COM FEATURES • Site Stats • Push Notifications • Simperium-Synced Notes • Reader • Image & Video processing • https://developer.wordpress.com/apps/

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IOS APP ARCHITECTURE • Persistence - Core Data, Simperium • Service Layer • Dependencies - CocoaPods • Separate libraries for stats, editor, metrics

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IOS APP WALKTHROUGH

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A NOTE ABOUT SWIFT • Challenges • Holding off • Unit tests

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WHAT’S COMING • New stats interface • Visual editor in iOS (Android is next!) • Incremental architectural improvements

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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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