building mobile applications with drupal
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Building Mobile Applications with Drupal
Jeff LinwoodDrupal Camp Dallas July 9, 2011
http://www.jefflinwood.com/@jefflinwood
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Building Mobile Apps with Drupal
• Drupal + Mobile Architecture
• jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap Demo
• Configuring Drupal 7 Services + REST
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Native HTML5 HybridAndroid
iPhone, iPadMobile
FrameworkPhoneGapTitanium
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Drupal plays well with others
• Services module
• REST
• JSON
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Resources in JSON
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Architecture
Drupal 7
REST EndpointServices Module
Android iPhone
Plist XMLJSON
Mobile Framework
AJAX/JSON
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• Driven by requirements
• Cache data in SQLite
• Cache JSON on the file system
• Only online access for some functionality
Caching and Offline Access
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App Demo
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Code Walkthrough
• Review Project in XCode 4
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Configuring Services 3 with D7
• Services (Services + REST Server)
• rest_server_plist
• Services_views
• ctools
Install and enable modules:
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Add Endpoint
• Name
• Path (no slashes)
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Edit Resources
• Need to determine what you want to serve through the endpoint
• What actions are allowed?
• Drupal permissions
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Mobile Dev Resources
• Drupal iOS SDK - https://github.com/workhabitinc/drupal-ios-sdk
• DrupalCloud - https://github.com/skyred/DrupalCloud
• PhoneGap - http://www.phonegap.com/
• jQuery Mobile - http://jquerymobile.com/
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Drupal+Mobile Recipes
• Showing Nodes on a Map
• Drupal 7 - GMap + Location
• iPhone - MKMapKit
• Android - MapView
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Mobile Recipe - Views
• Drupal can do all the heavy lifting with the views
• May not need complex data handling code on each client
• iOS - Drupal iOS SDK, UITableView
• Android - ListActivity, ArrayAdapter
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Building Blocks
http://www.flickr.com/photos/13403905@N03/2080281038/ - Alan Chia
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Tablet DevelopmentSaturday, July 9, 2011
To follow my app adventures
• http://www.jefflinwood.com/
• github:jefflinwood
• twitter: @jefflinwood
• Always interested in new apps and projects
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