Drupal è uno strumento che permette di sviluppare applicazioni web con rapidità e semplicità, in questa sessione analizzeremo le tecniche che permettono di trasferire le stesse metodologie per lo sviluppo di applicazioni mobile. Faremo una overview di applicazioni già sviluppate, sull’utilizzo delle API e dei moduli contrib e su come creare applicazioni native integrando framework come Titanium e Phonegap. Oltre al codice, parleremo di come i core developers stanno affrontando lo sviluppo della prossima release Drupal 8, della Mobile e Web Services initiative e dell’evoluzione dell’architettura con l’integrazione di alcuni componenti di Symfony2.

1. Mobile
PHPDay 2012 - Social tag #phpday

2. Chi siamo?
Stefano Mainardi
@stefanomainardi
stefano@twinbit.it
Founder of and
I’m a PHP developer

3. Chi siamo?
Paolo Mainardi
@paolomainardi
paolo@twinbit.it
Founder of and
I’m a PHP developer

4. Quanti di voi utilizzano Drupal?

5. Quanti di voi sviluppano
applicazioni mobile?

9. Target OS Development OS Language
Apple iOS OSX Objective-C
Android * Java
RIM Blackberry Windows, OSX HTML, JS, CSS / JAVA
Windows Phone Windows .NET / Silverlight
Samsung Bada Windows C++
HP WebOS * HTML, CSS, JS (Also: Nodejs)
Symbian, Meego * C++ (Qt)

11. It’s time to build your mobile
strategy

12. It’s time to build your mobile
strategy

13. Strategy questions
Support for which devices?
Graphic intensive?
Cross platform?
Custom UX/UI?
Budget?

14. Define your strategy in advance, before thinking about the
technology
Strategy

15. Define your strategy in advance, before thinking about the
technology
Strategy
Technology

16. Cosa intendiamo per “App”?
Native HTML5 Hybrid
Android: Java Mobile Framework
iPhone, iPad: Objective-C jQuery Mobile, Sencha Titanium, Phonegap
Touch

17. Cosa intendiamo per “App”?
:-)
Native HTML5 Hybrid
Android: Java Mobile Framework
iPhone, iPad: Objective-C jQuery Mobile, Sencha Titanium, Phonegap
Touch

18. Native app
Pros Cons
Can be more immersive Requires install
Multiple apps for various
Performance
platforms
Takes longer to deploy
Direct access to
changes/update
Native Hardware
(AppStore nightmare)
Android: Java
iPhone, iPad: Objective-C

19. HTML5 App
Pros Cons
No install Slow performances
Single code-base to non-native interface
multiple platforms
subject to connectivity issues
Drupal friendly
HTML5
Mobile Framework
jQuery Mobile, Sencha
Touch

20. Hybrid app
Pros Cons
No new API to learn
Sometime slow
speaks our language
performances
(JS, HTML, CSS)
New API to learn (only
Good performance
Titanium)
One app to multiple
platforms
Drupal friendly Hybrid
Titanium, Phonegap

22. What is Phonegap?
Application container that allows you to build natively
installed apps using HTML, CSS & Javascript

23. Supported Platforms

24. Generate installable application in the cloud
“Say goodbye to SDKs, compilers and hardware.”

25. Generate installable application in the cloud
“Say goodbye to SDKs, compilers and hardware.”

26. Features
Accelerometer Geolocation
Camera Media
Capture Notification
Compass Storage
Connection
Contacts
File

28. What is Titanium?
Titanium App (JS)

29. What is Titanium?
Titanium App (JS)
Native applications

30. Native SDK installation required

31. Features
Accelerometer Geolocation
Camera Media
Capture Notification
Compass Storage
Connection
Contacts
File

32. PhoneGap is a web app that runs in a Titanium is a pure JavaScript API that
native web browser view creates native code
HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript Better performances

33. Web service

34. Web service
Native
App

35. Web service
Native
App

36. We need to move away from the short-sighted
vision of the web as a collection of html pages

37. The web is, and has always been, a collection of requests and
responses, with pages being only a subset.

38. DEMO TIME!

39. Questions?

40. Rimaniamo in contatto!
Stefano Mainardi Paolo Mainardi
stefano@twinbit.it paolo@twinbit.it
twitter : @stefanomainardi twitter : @paolomainardi

41. Grazie!