The document discusses hackathons and how they can help promote APIs and the development of mobile applications. It describes the speaker's experiences at various hackathons promoting different companies' APIs. It also discusses tools that can help organizations integrate their APIs into mobile applications, such as mobile backend as a service platforms and cross-platform mobile app frameworks. The overall message is that hackathons are an effective way to inspire API and mobile app development.

1. Hackathons
APIs in the
Trenches…

2. Hackathon Stories
Going from API -> APP

3. My First Hackathon – Factual API (2011)

4. My First Hackathon – Factual (2011)

5. A few weeks ago…
Quit my day job,
… and went to a hackathon

6. HP Hackathon a few weeks ago….

7. And today another
hackathon was
announced...

8. Biggest Hackathon ever..

9. Maybe make Hackathons a
full time job?

10. Is a full time hackathoner
the person you want
building on your APIs?

11. “will you come be our
evangelist?”

12. All my old hackathon projects

13. Why hack and
why APIs?

14. • Worked at Mashery as Sales Engineer
• Worked at Alcatel Lucent as Evangelist
for mobile tool (Open Plug) and Telco
API Evangelist
• Worked at Layer 7 as API Evangelist
• Currently a mobile app developer,
architecture consultant and trainer

15. Why Hackathons are
leading a Business
Revolution

16. Evolving Software Methodologies
Waterfall
Iterative
Agile
Scrum

17. APIs Enable a Leaner Startup
Intrapreneur

18. Hack your Organization
•Rapid Prototyping
•Get inspired
•Execute on Ideas

19. Back on Topic…
Going from API -> APP

20. How to go from Mobile Web to Native?
A multiple phone web based application
framework is a software framework that
is designed to support the development
of phone applications that are written
as embedded dynamic websites and
may leverage native phone capabilities,
like geo data or contact lists.
From Wikipedia

21. What Identifies a Hybrid Native App?
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Non-native UI Controls
Slow Performance
Lack of Snappiness
Available on All Platforms
Built Quickly

22. Why I believe Cross Platform will win
• Fast development
• Leverage Javascript knowledge on
Mobile
• Lots of VC dollars invested in it
• Passionate technical founders of
startups
• We got inspired by hackathons…

23. What tools out there
enable our
organization to take
APIs and make Apps?

24. How to go from Mobile Web to Hybrid Native?

25. PhoneGap Architecture Explained

26. Mobile UI Frameworks

27. Mobile App Specific IDEs

28. What about getting
my APIs integrated
into my apps?

29. Innovative Tools like Appery.io

30. Mobile Backend as a Service – What?
Feature
Functionality
Identity
SSO, User Mgmt, Auth at API Layer
Persistence
Offline Mode, Data Syncing, Caching
Messaging
Push Notifications, Email, SMS
Orchestration
Server Side Code, API Integration

31. Mobile Backend Providers

32. APIs -> Apps
Hackathons!!

33. Question and Answer
Thank you
@intalex