BetterContent

for a developer’s well being

Benny Weingarten-Gabbay

@gardenofwine

Once upon a time,

there was an app

Home Screen

Title:“RECENT ACTIVITY”

One day, the PM said,

“Lets change the title”

Home Screen

Title:“ALL YOUR RECENT ITEMS”

Inefficiency

Developer

Product ManagerMarketing Manager

Legal Advisor

UX specialist Designer

Better Efficiency

Developer

Product ManagerMarketing Manager

Legal Advisor

UX specialist Designer

Side note: Content Management

Desirable features:

● Central document for all content

● Easy localization

● Change app content on the fly

Reality:

● Not easy

● Mostly obtrusive

● Incomplete

Side note: Content Management

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Requirements

● Publicly accessible

● Easy development

● Easy installation

● Easy configuration

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Free Hosting Services

heroku labs:enable websockets

Native packaging

VS

Websocket Implementation

VS

Tool Architecture

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Native app

Server

web client

Native Architecture

● Hook for app start

● A repeating NSTimer scanner

Native Architecture

NSDictionary

“0x7cea4590”

“0x7a0b9cf0”

“0x79e7bd70”

“0x79ea0d90”

Native Architecture@implementation UILabel (BTCLabel)

- (void)btcIsSerializable{}

- (NSString *)btcClass{

return @"label";

}

- (NSDictionary *)btcAttributes{

return @{@"text": self.btcSafeText,

@"font" : @{@"pointSize" : @(self.font.pointSize)

@"color" : [self btcHexColor]}};

}

- (void)updateWithComponent:(BTCComponent *)newComponent{

self.text = [newComponent.attributes objectForKey:@"text"];

}

Server Architecture

● Node.js, gulp

● based on heroku-examples/node-ws-test

● Simple, fragile websocket protocol

● Mostly a data pipe between Native App

and web app.

Web Client Architecture

● Still work in progress

● One big js file

● Separate component for each native class

● Currently only supports label editing

The Future

● Heroku templates

● iOS Framework in addition to pod

● Android support

● Additional components support

● Additional attributes support

● Multiple user support

● Native API for app control over

functionality

The Holy Grail

Automatic content management

support

1. Use BetterContent to scrape content

2. Build a document with all apps content

3. Native app uses said document for content

4. Said document is editable from the server

BetterContent

https://github.com/gardenofwine/better-content-

server

Benny Weingarten-Gabbay

@gardenofwine