Appacitive talk at 17th BlrDroid Meetup in Bangalore.

Building a scalable mobile app backend using Appacitive.
Talk at the 17 BlrDroid meetup at Bangalore.

Transcript

1. Creating backend rich android mobile Apps with appacitive
2. Agenda Introduction •  Problem statement •  Our solution Overview •  Terminology •  Graph representation •  Some examples •  Platform walkthrough FIRST SECOND THIRD Creating a geo located photo app •  Features / Server side •  Code walkthrough
3. What do we do? “Help developers build awesome apps by eliminating the need to build & manage complex backend infrastructure..”
4. What problem do we solve? “Maintaining server side infrastructure is a pain in the a** (ahem!!) backend…”
5. Some facts
6. Appacitive 101
7. Terminology metadata schema – definition of a data type (e.g. user) relation – definition of a business relationship between two schemas (e.g. friend) actual data article – an instance of a schema connection – an instance of a relation.
8. name: Saturn type: titan name: Jupiter type: god name: Pluto type: god name: Neptune type: god name: Hercules type: god name: Cerebrus type: monster name: Alceme type: god A graph data model father father brother brother pet mother battled times: 12 Ref: http://www.slideshare.net/knowfrominfo/titan-big-graph-data-with-cassandra#btnNext
9. name: Marvel type: brand name:Avengers type: movie name: Iron Man type: movie name: Top Gun type: movie name: Robert Downey Jr. type: actor text: Cool movie! rating: 4 type: review name: Tom Cruise type: actor Some examples brand actor review friend actor
10. Under the hood
11. Walkthrough
12. features q user registration q login q login with facebook q location specific photos q posting a photo q user specific photos Setting up the back end
13. •  User schema already available inbuilt •  SDK already supports all relevant methods •  No additional code needed. User registration (feature 1 / 6)
14. User login (feature 2 / 6) •  Authentication on existing user schema supported out of the box. •  All relevant methods available in SDK
15. Login with facebook (feature 3/6) •  Login and user registration with facebook and twitter already supported on platform. •  SDK already supports all relevant methods
16. Location specific photos (feature 4/6) •  Types containing geography(latitude, longitude) properties automatically support location search. •  Add a property ‘geolocation’ in photo is of type geography •  Feature implemented as radial search within 50 mi of phone location
17. Posting a photo (feature 5/6) •  Use inbuilt file upload support. •  Upload new file and generate a public url for the same. •  Use phone gps to resolve location and google to reverse geolocate the location to an address. •  Create a photo article corresponding to the file and store the public url in it along with the location and resolved address.
18. User specific photos (feature 6/6) •  ‘user_photo’ relation between user and photo to link a user with his photos. Connection created at the time of upload. •  X’s photos are same as “all photos connected to user X with a relation of type user_photo”. •  Use graph query for run this query.
19. Getting started •  Sign-up for beta access @ www.appacitive.com. •  Download SDKs from www.github.com/appacitive •  Visit appacitive.github.com for documentations and quick starts.
20. Connect with us @appacitive www.facebook.com/appacitive connect@appacitive.com
21. Thank You