Lessons From The Trenches

Porting Lessons from the Trenches

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Who am I? • Scott Michaels,Vice President Atimi Software 2

Porting Lessons from the Trenches About Atimi • Founded nine years ago in Vancouver BC • Named one of BC’s fastest growing tech companies 2006 and 2007 • Founder and President, Steven Gully, named one of Business in Vancouver's Top 40 Under 40 in 2007 • Operate as a service ﬁrm, we don’t produce product under our own name 3

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Orchard - The Atimi iPhone Kit Atimi created a set of features most common to iPhone applications, allowing for faster development with high quality • Server - Side component (messages, data, etc) • Queue management to take care of all the interruptions to applications (phone calls, etc) • Photo gallery with all expected bells / whistles • Integration with statistics tracking packages • Mapping • Javascript Bridge to Cocoa • Much more... 4

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases Access Hollywood 5

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases New York Times Reader 6

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases Etch a Sketch 7

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases HaHaHa 8

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases Sex and the City Carrie’s Closet 9

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases Sesame Street iRead 10

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases Poop the World 11

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases Gin Rummy Deluxe 12

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Atimi iPhone Releases Go Fish 13

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Secret Projects - NDA • Major Children’s show - 7.5 GB install footprint • Sports Network - Suite of apps • News Network - Suite of apps • Video playing app • Video Store Chain • Magazine and Traditional Publishing Apps • AD / Promotional Apps 14

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Lessons From the Trenches 15

Porting Lessons from the Trenches 16

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Starting Up 17

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Libs / Helpers 20

Porting Lessons from the Trenches What Don’t You Have? • Java • Flash • Animation Libraries (Talking Mouth) • Open GL (Beyond ES 1.1) 22

Porting Lessons from the Trenches What Do You Have? • Server side components • Mac Frameworks • Helpers such as Unity 3D, the Playﬁrst SDK • MapNinjas 23

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Dealbreakers • Frameworks: It ‘All’ has to work • Performance 24

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Evaluating 25

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Overcoming the Limitations 28

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Interface 32

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Common Mistakes 38

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Interruptions 42

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Testing 47

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Considerations 49

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Serious Thought • Can you change your app • Why would you 50

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Leverage 56

Porting Lessons from the Trenches Contact Atimi Scott Michaels, Vice President smic@atimi.com (604) 787-1000 Address 311 Water Street, Suite 620 Vancouver, BC, Canada V6B 1B8 58

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