Drupal as a web services platform for building Android, iPhone and other platforms' applications

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Posted by skyredwang on May 24, 2010 at 5:33pm

Drupalcamp 8 NYC Session Proposal:

Duration: 1 hour

Brief description: This session will present architectural considerations for developing mobile applications with Drupal. It focuses on design patterns and platform integration.

Agenda

Intro to Mobile
Intro to Services Module
Walk through Services Module basic setups, user interface, and perform simple tests
Intro to mobile dev framework: PhoneGap, Titanium API, DrupalCloud, KBDrupalConnect
Intro to OAuth and REST architecture
Q & A

About the Presenter: Jingsheng Wang (skyred) built the BeerCloud application on Android and iPhone, using Drupal as the backend ( published Drupal case study: Drupal + Services Module + Beer = BeerCloud on Android and iPhone). He also makes contribution to the Services module and its related projects. Also, recently skyred was on the panel for a DrupalCon SF session: Drupal as a web services platform using the Services module hosted by heyrocker (maintainer of Services module). For more info, please see his linkedin profile here.

Update: The slides for this talk are here https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=dccsmr6r_84cjddfbdz