An overview of the mobile apps maintained by WordPress.org, how to contribute, and a bit about the architecture focusing on the iOS app.

1. WORDPRESS.ORG
MOBILE APPS
WordCamp San Antonio 2015
Aaron Douglas

2. ABOUT ME
• Aaron Douglas
• Milwaukee
• Mobile Developer for
Automattic Inc.
• Prior life Enterprise Java
• @astralbodies

3. WHAT’S WE’RETALKING
ABOUT
• What’s OutThere
• History
• Contribution
• App Architecture
• Specifics about the iOS App
• What’s Coming Next

4. WHAT’S OUTTHERE
• WordPress Android
• WordPress iOS
• Sub-projects:WordPress-iOS-Editor,
WordPressCom-Stats-iOS,WordPressCom-
Analytics-iOS + many others

5. HISTORY
• July 2008 - WordPress for iPhone OS 2.0 - v1.0
• February 2010 - WordPress for Android 1.5 - v1.0
Acquired wpToGo
• Blackberry & Windows Mobile as well

6. SOME INTERESTING STATS
• 60% of users are only using a self-hosted setup
• 1,200k people a month (iOS 700,Android 500)
• 24/26 seconds average session length

7. CONTRIBUTE

8. WHATTO HELP WITH
• Bugs - reporting and fixing
• Review &Testing of other Pull Requests
• New features

9. CODE
• Hosted all on GitHub
• https://github.com/wordpress-mobile

10. THE PROCESS
• Assign yourself to the issue
• Fork the repository
• Create a branch
• Fix the problem
• Submit a Pull Request

11. COMMUNICATION
• GitHub Issues
• http://make.wordpress.org/mobile
• Slack Chat
• https://make.wordpress.org/chat/

12. BIG PIECES

13. BIG PIECES
• Networking / Synchronization
• Authentication
• Data Access
• Local/Offline Persistence
• User Interface

14. NETWORKING
• XML-RPC
• RESTful API
• Core
• WordPress.com
• Jetpack

15. WORDPRESS.COM FEATURES
• Site Stats
• Push Notifications
• Simperium-Synced Notes
• Reader
• Image &Video processing
• https://developer.wordpress.com/apps/

16. IOS APP ARCHITECTURE
• Persistence - Core Data, Simperium
• Service Layer
• Dependencies - CocoaPods
• Separate libraries for stats, editor, metrics

17. IOS APP WALKTHROUGH

18. A NOTE ABOUT SWIFT
• Challenges
• Holding off
• Unit tests

19. WHAT’S COMING
• New stats interface
• Visual editor in iOS (Android is next!)
• Incremental architectural improvements

20. QUESTIONS?

21. CONTACT
• Twitter: @astralbodies
• GitHub: astralbodies
• WordPress.org Slack:
astralbodies
• E-mail:
aaron@automattic.com