Post on 12-Apr-2017
WordPress for iOS Under the Hood360iDev 2015
Aaron Douglas
About Me
Aaron Douglas
Milwaukee, WI USA
Mobile Developer for Automattic Inc.
Prior life Enterprise Java
@astralbodies
What’s we’re talking aboutPurpose of the App
Problems To Solve
Technologies Used
Architecture
Development Process
What’s Missing
Contributing
Purpose of the App
Text
App Walkthroughfi
Problems to Solve
Multiple Endpoints
WordPress.com
WordPress.org
XML-RPC
REST API v1, v2
Jetpack Plugin from WordPress.com
Inherited Tech Debt
Original contractors
No real planning
Small team/contributor base
Web Content
Reader - Rendering
Editor - Creating & Rendering
Markdown
Server-side Plugins
Offline Mode
Synchronization
Stability
Consistency
Conflict Resolution
Localization
Common strings
GlotPress (http://translate.wordpress.org)
RtL support
Calendars, dates, times
Technologies Used
Architecture
Data Model (some of it)
WPAccount (0..n)
Blog (0..n)
Blog (0..n)
Post
Page
BasePost
AbstractPost
ReaderPost
Media
Service Layers
View Controller
Local Service
Persistence
Remote Service
Interwebs
BlogService
LocalCoreDataService
BlogServiceRemote
BlogServiceRemoteREST
BlogServiceRemoteXMLRPCNSManagedObjectContext
Component Pods
WordPress-Editor-iOS
WordPressCom-Stats-iOS
WordPressCom-Analytics-iOS
WordPress-Shared-iOS
MediaPicker-iOS
The Code
Development Process
Developers
Automattic
Outside Contributors
Development Process
Three week iterations
Planning … well …
Three week testing/stablization - HockeyApp enterprise builds
Git Flow
GitHub Issues
What’s Missing
What’s Missing
WordPressKit
More Service Layers
Re-evaluate callback paradigm with new Swift techniques
Share Extension
Watch App
WordPressKit
Full-blown SDK for WP integration
Authentication, Authorization
Every action (post, edit, commenting, etc)
Reminiscent of Parse SDK
Some day :)
Contributing
ContributingGitHub
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
Questions?
Contact
Twitter: @astralbodies
GitHub: astralbodies
WordPress.org Slack: astralbodies
E-mail: aaron@automattic.com
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