best practices for building ethereal apps - boulder startup week 2015
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Best Practices for Building Ethereal Apps
Jordan Stone Notion
What is Notion?
Sound
Temperature
Light
OrientationNatural Frequency
Proximity
Acceleration
Water
@notion
What is an Ethereal App?
Examples of Ethereal Apps• Sporting Events
• Masters
• Olympics
• World Cup
• Conferences
• WWDC
• BSW
So what do you do if your app is only valid for, say, 3
days?
Web Views
• Exist inside of your app, maintaining the experience
• HTML can be changed dynamically without App Store approval
• Caching, storage limits, and offline access can make this difficult
Configuration
• Powered by an API
• Externally update configuration via REST endpoint
• PRO TIP: Use a single endpoint that has all of your configuration information. Save to a plist and use this throughout the application lifecycle.
• Burning down the (TestFlight) house
Persistance
• Keep the “master record” outside of your application
• Be prepared to tear it all down
• Load from memory first, update from an API
The Most Fantastical Farmers Market Event
iPhone AppOnly on the App Store…for 1 day
Approach #1Hint: Don’t do this one
Hard-coding Vendors
Great Job!But you spelled “Kurious Koncepts” wrong…
Oh, and also…
• East Coast Joe’s backed out
• Knotty Tie and Sons of Scullery are switching booth spots
• When the app launches, the ‘News’ tab should be active until the day of the market. Then the ‘Vendors’ tab should be active. After the market closes, the ‘News’ tab should be active again.
While this works…
Approach #2The right way
Requesting Vendors from an API
Requesting the Active Tab from an API
What About News?
Summary• Dynamic configuration should be leveraged as
much as possible
• Use web views where an API request is too difficult or not possible
• Keep the “master record” outside of your application
• Save your expedited app review for when you really need it. Like, when you really really need it.
