Helios is a lightening-fast way to publish web services for mobile devices. Join us as we walk you through setting up an iOS application that uses Helios' backend services to provide a geo-tracking data store. We?ll dive into some examples while coding up solutions live, and demonstrate the command line tools used to publish a web service based on your iOS data model.

1. How to Create a Geo-tracking
Server for Mobile Devices Using
Heroku's Helios
Samuel Rosen, Vincent Reeder, Mavens Consulting, Technical Architects

2. All about Mavens Consulting Inc.
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3. A Quick Story
Why can’t developers be clairvoyant…
▪ Un-predictable use cases
▪ Wasted time
How do we…
▪ Develop Application first (iOS)
▪ Easily add a web service
How?

4. How Indeed
Helios
▪ Uses your native iOS data model
▪ Creates a Rest API
▪ It is a Ruby based framework
▪ Easily deployable to Heroku

5. Our Application
Geo Tracking Application
▪ Tracks points of interest
▪ User can:
• Create a new point of interest
• View all POI’s on a map

6. Alternatives
▪ Write our own
▪ Force.com
▪ Ruby on Rails
▪ Other Services

7. The Application

8. Data Structure
Core Data
▪ Location
• Name : NSString
• Longitude : NSNumber
• Latitude : NSNumber

9. Code Walkthrough
▪ App Delegate
▪ New Location View Controller
▪ Map View Controller

10. Sharing Places of Interest
What do we have to do?
▪ Create a new Helios Application
▪ Link our Core Data Model
▪ Write Sync Code for our iOS App

11. Demo
▪ Create Helios Application
▪ Link Core Data Model
▪ Start Local Server and test
▪ Deploy to Heroku

12. How to Sync
Sync Goals:
▪ Push new POI up
▪ Pull entire list of POI’s down
Usability Goals
▪ UI should still feel fast
▪ Should still be able to view points offline

13. Demo
▪ Walk through the Data Manager
▪ Integrate Data Manager
▪ Test out Application

14. Summing it all up
Using Helios we:
▪ Created a rest API
▪ Pushed the Application
▪ By configuration only
Integration with iOS
▪ One new class

15. Only a Scratch
Helios can do so much more
▪ Push Notifications
▪ Passbook Integration
▪ In-App Purchase
▪ Newsstand
▪ And more…

16. Samuel Rosen
Vincent Reeder
Technical Architect
Technical Architect