iOS development

by Benjamin Digeon

in a hackathon

Who’s that man ?

iOS and Ruby developer.

Startup Weekend and Hackathon addict.

Currently working at EcoTa.co. Benjamin Digeon

@Todiann

Who’s that man ?

EcoTa.co

• On-demand transportation service.

• We're currently looking for Android and Ruby developers.

• « See the most fashionable places in a city based on information from social networks »

• Idea find 3 minutes before the pitch

• The only developer

• 72 hours

Happy Places example

Goal ?

« Have something functional and beautiful » 

vs

Native or not ?

Data sources

• Facebook Graph : login facebook required and hard to get data.

• Foursquare : developper API easy to use.

Heat Map

• Setting a value to a point (number of Foursquare checkin in a place)

• Displaying a map with a color gradient in accordance with the value

• An objective-c library already exist : https://github.com/ryanolsonk/HeatMapDemo

Let’s code !

KISS (Keep it Simple, Stupid )

• Get places with most checkin in maximum 20km radius on the map.

• Display an HeatMap with them.

• Allow to select the top 5 places.

• 3 categories (bar, food, culture).

• Manual reload

https://github.com/BenjaminDigeon/HappyPlaces

Source code

Tips

Simple is betterSet realistic expectations

Don't reinvent the wheel

Have fun !

Tools

Cocoapods

Dependency manager for Objective-C.

Alcatraz.io

Package manager for Xcode.

github.com/nomad/Shenzhen

• Create .ipa files

• Distribute them with TestFlight, HockeyApp, DeployGate, iTunes Connect

• From the command line !

Crashlytics

Thank you@Todiann