PLAT-17 Alfresco iOS Mobile Application Details and Design

Alfresco iOS Mobile  Application Details and Design" Ryan McVeigh, Director of Enterprise Integration - Zia Consulting" Gi Lee, Principal Consultant – Zia Consulting"

Who are we?"Ryan McVeigh •  Director @ Zia" •  Responsible for Ziaʼs ECM Practice" •  CMIS Secretary and Technical Editor" •  Represented BEA Systems and Oracle" •  Ziaʼs lead CMIS representative"Gi Lee •  Principal Consultant @ Zia" •  Architect of Alfresco Mobile and Ziaʼs Fresh Docs products" •  CMIS Committee Member"

Who is Zia? A firm with deep technical expertise & strategic insight, coupled with our Agile software methodology, provides numerousbenefits to our customers:" Benefits" •  Achieve ROI by delivering improved operational efficiencies " •  Boost productivity by creating collaborative work environments" Our Partners •  Maintain access and control of information through the enterprise" •  Allow employees to find the information they need, when they need it" •  Increase end-user adoption! •  Agile training by using Zia methodology and Rally tools" •  Raving fan customers" Professional Qualifications" •  Highly-experienced, accredited senior staff consisting of Business Analysts, Enterprise Architects, Software Engineers and Data Architects" •  Platinum Alfresco Professional Services & OEM Partner" •  Platinum Ephesoft Partner" •  Alfresco 2010 Implementation of the Year with Denver" •  MuleSoft Partner"

Agenda"•  Alfresco Mobile History•  Architecture Overview•  CMIS Refresher•  Demo•  Technical Walkthrough •  CMIS Features" •  Alfresco RESTful API"•  Open Source Project•  Roadmap & What’s Next?•  Questions?

Alfresco Mobile History"•  Zia released Fresh Docs for iOS in December 2009•  Android application also available•  Alfresco and Zia partnership entered this year for Alfresco Mobile

Architecture Overview"Mostly a CMIS application talking to AlfrescoSeveral features specific to Alfresco CMIS Alfresco REST

CMIS Refresher"CMIS TC Goals & Scope •  Enable applications to target different ECM repositories uniformly" •  Provide a set of basic services enabling richer ECM applications and use cases" •  All for loose coupling of an ECM application on the underlying repository" •  Use popular protocol bindings" •  REST / AtomPub" •  Web Services / SOAP"

Demo"Alfresco Mobile in Action – A Few Features •  CMIS: " •  Login to Alfresco over HTTP or HTTPS" •  Browse, Search, Display Content and Edit Metadata, Upload Media" •  Create Folders" •  Alfresco" •  Alfresco Activities" •  Like & Unlike, Comment on Documents" •  iOS" •  Local Downloads" •  Multi Tasking"

Design" •  Navigation based app for browsing CMIS repositories" •  Layered on Alfresco speciﬁc functionality" •  Hierarchy of Table Views " •  Universal binary"

Designed for the iPad" •  Still a navigation based app but with iPad-speciﬁc controllers " •  Split View Controller" •  Still a universal binary"

Features using CMIS" CMIS AtomPub Binding Browse & getChildren Company Home Download getContentStream Document Metadata getTypeDeﬁniBon Search query Upload createDocument

Features using the Alfresco RESTful API" Alfresco RESTful API AcBviBes Feed View & Add Tags Comments Like a Document Sites List

App Launch / Sites / Browse"•  CMIS: Retrieve AtomPub Service Document"•  Alfresco: Request Sites List"•  CMIS: Request folder children for the Root Collection"•  CMIS: Navigate into a folder or site"

Activities"•  Alfresco: Retrieve userʼs activity feed"•  User Clicks on a document cell" •  CMIS: Retrieve Document via getObjectByID service"•  User clicks on the info icon " •  CMIS: Retrieve Document Metadata using getTypeDeﬁnition service"

Search"•  Execute a CMIS Query" •  Full-text search:" •  SELECT * FROM cmis:document WHERE CONTAINS(ʻkeywordsʼ)! •  Search by cmis:name:" •  SELECT * FROM cmis:document WHERE CONTAINS(ʻ~cmis:name:ʼ*keywords*ʼ)!

Calling an AtomPub Service" CMIS RESTful Request Alfresco AtomPub XML

Creating an HTTP Request"•  Using ASIHTTPRequest build your request"•  Delegate handles events from the request"

Parsing AtomPub XML"Event-Driven XML Parsing (SAX)"•  Parser sends messages (parsing events) to it s delegates (callbacks)"Use NSXMLParser & NSXMLParserDelegate"•  Recommended by Apple"•  Native API"•  Objective-C based implementation"Why not use the Tree-based API (DOM)?"•  Apple does not provide the API for iOS"

NSXMLParser & NSXMLParserDelegate"Setting up NSXMLParser"NSXMLParserDelegate methods"– parser:didStartElement:namespaceURI:qualiﬁedName:attributes:"– parser:didEndElement:namespaceURI:qualiﬁedName:"– parser:foundCharacters:"

Calling Alfresco APIs" RESTful HTTP Request Alfresco JSON

We Like JSON!"•  Simple to consume!"•  Use SBJson"•  Parses into NSDictionary and NSArray objects"•  CMIS 1.1 will contain a Browser Binding!"

Open Source Availability" Hosted on Bitbucket http://bit.ly/rrNdTcSearch for alfresco-mobile at bitbucket.org Released under the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1

API s and Libraries Used" •  Cocoa Touch Frameworks" •  The APIʼs Apple provides to build an iOS application" •  ASIHTTPRequest" •  Communication with the server" •  Wrapper around Appleʼs CFNetwork API" •  SBJson" •  Fast, simple & clean JSON parser and generator" •  GHUnit" •  Objective-C Test framework"

What do I need to know?" •  Git" •  Objective-C" •  iOS App Programming" •  Alfresco RESTful API" •  CMIS AtomPub Binding"

Resources"Apple s iOS Developer Library & Development videos • View & View Controller Programming Guide" • Table View Programming Guide" • Key-Value Programming Guide" • Memory Management Programming Guide" • iOS Human Interface Guidelines" !! ! !Beginning iPhone 4 Development: ! !! ! !Exploring the iOS SDK, Apress Publishing"Programming in Objective-C, Sam s Publishing"

Common Design Patterns" •  Model-View-Controller" •  A pattern to relate the user interface to an underlying data model." •  Delegation"" •  A patten where an object, the delegator, delegates tasks to an associated helper object, the delegate." •  The delegate is responsible for executing the task for the delegator." •  Target-Action" •  Target-action is a design pattern in which an object holds the information necessary to send a message to another object when an event occurs."

Tools for iOS Development"•  Mac with OS X Snow Leopard or Lion"•  XCode 4" • Integrated Development Environment" • Integrated Build System" • Debugger" • Interface Builder" • iOS Simulator •  Instruments" • Performance and behavior analysis"

Getting Started "•  Create an iOS developer account"•  Install the latest version of XCode 4"•  Clone the repository" •  git clone https://ziadev@bitbucket.org/ziadev/alfresco-mobile.git"•  Open the Project"

Two Targets?" Two Targets: Alfresco & Fresh Docs"

Getting Started "•  Select a target and the   iOS Simulator to Use" •  Build and Run"

How do I install it on my device?" •  Signup for a iOS Developer Program Account" •  Configure Profile" •  Development Certificate, App ID,   Provisioning Device & Certificates" •  Configure & Build the application for your device" See iOS Provisioning Portal Resources & How-To Guides"

How Do I Contribute?" Fork on Work Clone" Bitbucket Locally" Send a pull Commit Push" request" Locally" Step-by-step example for forking and sending a pull request:  http://bit.ly/pbIDRk"

Roadmap" Features under future consideration •  Browse Site Members" •  Search and Browse for People" •  Version History and Upload New Versions" •  Browse Recent Docs" •  More…" Alfresco Mobile Product Manager •  Marc Dubresson" •  marc.dubresson@alfresco.com" Disclaimer: Neither Alfresco nor Zia are making any claims or commitments to deliver these features."

Whatʼs Next?"Zia is hosting a deep dive Webinar with Alfresco •  November 1 @ 1pm ET" •  http://bit.ly/tztqRL"Code is Open Source •  Happy to have contributors" •  Alfresco will coordinate releases of Alfresco Mobile" •  Zia will coordinate releases of Fresh Docs" •  If you want to release to the Apple App Store, contact us"Come see us at our booth!

Contact Us"Ryan McVeigh – ECM Business Owner: •  rmcveigh@ziaconsulting.com"Gi Lee – Fresh Docs Architect •  gi.lee@ziaconsulting.com"Michael Muller – Fresh Docs PM •  mmuller@ziaconsulting.com"

Q & A"

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