Modular iOS Apps

Given at the Hamburg edition of CocoaHeads 03.03.2014

http://cocoaheads.org/de/Hamburg/
https://twitter.com/pietbrauer

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1. Modular IOS APPS
2. GOALS
3. divide THE XING IOS APP INTO LOGICAL PARTS
4. make it easier FOR NEW COWORKERS TO GET STARTED
5. ENABLE versioning IN THE DIFFERENT MODULES
6. slim down THE MAIN APP
7. MAKE OTHER PRODUCT TEAMS more productive
8. WRITE cleaner code DUE TO SEGMENTATION
9. HOW
10. ▸ CocoaPods ▸ Rake ▸ Jenkins ▸ Ruby command line tool
11. EACH MODULE HAS A PODSPEC
12. PRIVATE COCOAPODS SPECS REPOSITORY ON GITHUB ENTERPRISE
13. JENKINS BUILDS THE SPEC REPO ON EVERY PULL REQUEST AND CHECKS FOR VALID PODSPECS Just like the real Specs Repo
14. unified rake tasks FOR EACH PROJECT
15. rake build # builds the project for CI rake version:bump:minor # bumps minor, patch and major version number rake git:release # tags the version and pushes to master rake pod:push # pushes the podspec to the master repo
16. RUBY CLI ▸ based on Thor gem ▸ heavily uses Xcodeproj from Cocoapods
17. $ xcnew help new Usage: xcnew new PROJECTNAME PREFIX Description: `xcnew new` creates a new XING iPhone App module project to get you up and running in no time. It will create our desired file structure for modules, install our dependencies and create simple Xcode project with Login using the XNGAPIClient. $ xcnew new XNGCocoaHeads CH
18. DEMO
19. MODULES
20. 13 CORE MODULES EXTRACTED 21 OTHER MODULES (REGULAR PODS)
21. XNGUIKIT UIDEVICE, UIIMAGE, UIIMAGEVIEW, ... CATEGORIES AND SUBCLASSES
22. XNGFOUNDATION NSSTRING, NSARRAY, NSDICTIONARY, ... CATEGORIES AND SUBCLASSES
23. XNGDATAMODEL COREDATA MODEL, MOGENERATOR MODELS, MODELS, DATAFETCHER ETC.
24. BASEVIEWCONTROLLERS UIVIEWCONTROLLER, UICOLLECTIONVC, UITABLEVC, ...
25. OTHER MODULES LOGIN, WALKTHROUGH, REGISTER, XNGFONT, XNGCOLOR, TRACKER ...
26. WHAT'S next?
27. PORT THE INSTALLER TO COCOAPODS GitHub: pietbrauer/cocoapods-generate-command
28. APPLY MODULES PATTERN TO NETWORK NEWS, PROFILE ETC. ONCE THE SMALL ISSUES ARE RESOLVED
29. FIND MORE IOS DEVELOPERS.
30. BUILD MORE MODULES.
31. ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS.
32. THANKS ! @PIET_NBN