Presentation given at Drupal Camp Dallas - July 9, 2011 on developing smartphone apps with Drupal 7 using the Services Module, jQuery Mobile, PhoneGap, and Drupal iOS SDK

1. Building Mobile
Applications with Drupal
Jeff Linwood
Drupal Camp Dallas July 9, 2011
http://www.jefflinwood.com/
@jefflinwood
Saturday, July 9, 2011

2. Building Mobile Apps
with Drupal
+ =
• Drupal + Mobile Architecture
• jQuery Mobile + PhoneGap Demo
• Configuring Drupal 7 Services + REST
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3. Native HTML5 Hybrid
Android Mobile PhoneGap
iPhone, iPad Framework Titanium
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4. Drupal plays well with others
• Services module
• REST
• JSON
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5. Resources in JSON
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6. Architecture
Android iPhone Mobile Framework
JSON Plist XML AJAX/JSON
REST Endpoint
Services Module
Drupal 7
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7. Caching and Offline Access
• Driven by requirements
• Cache data in SQLite
• Cache JSON on the file system
• Only online access for some
functionality
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8. App Demo
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9. Code Walkthrough
• Review Project in XCode 4
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10. Configuring Services 3
with D7
Install and enable modules:
• Services (Services + REST Server)
• rest_server_plist
• Services_views
• ctools
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11. Add Endpoint
• Name
• Path (no slashes)
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12. Edit Resources
• Need to determine what you want to serve
through the endpoint
• What actions are allowed?
• Drupal permissions
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13. 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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14. Drupal+Mobile Recipes
• Showing Nodes on a Map
• Drupal 7 - GMap + Location
• iPhone - MKMapKit
• Android - MapView
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15. 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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16. http://www.flickr.com/photos/13403905@N03/2080281038/ - Alan Chia
Building Blocks
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17. Tablet Development
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18. To follow my app
adventures
• http://www.jefflinwood.com/
• github:jefflinwood
• twitter: @jefflinwood
• Always interested in new apps and projects
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