1. FASTER PROTOTYPING USING PARSE AND AZURE MOBILE SERVICES Goran Đonović
July 15th 2015
FASTER PROTOTYPING
USING PARSE AND
AZURE MOBILE SERVICES
Goran Đonović

2. About me Mobile app developer Connect with me on LinkedIn
on twitter
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Recent remote worker #developerslife
Do or die kind of a guy

3. … and who are you?

4. What are going to talk about
Prototyping
Development from mobile perspektive
Backend as a service platforms (Parse and Azure)
(M)Bass most used features
Pros & Cons
The next steps
Q&A

5. So... What is prototype?
"A prototype is an incomplete version of software, built so users can experience some of the proposed features or properties"

6. Business requirements Vs. Business hypothesis

7. Requirements...
I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now!

8. Hypothesis
asdas

9. Tools for your toolbox

10. It's all about the base What is your base activity? Mobile Dev?
Web Frontend Dev?
Web Backend Dev?
Game Dev?
U no Dev?

11. Parse services overview

12. Azure Mobile Services Overview

13. Parse Vs. Azure

14. It is your choice

15. Getting started Create account and app Download SDK
Download seed project
Check app key and secret
Initialize

16. User management user.signUpInBackground user.loginInBackground
ParseUser.getCurrentUser (and fetch())
ParseUser.logout
ParseUser.requestPasswordResetInBackground
ParseAnonymusUtils (for anonymous users)
ParseFacebookUtils
ParseTwitterUtils
ParseUser user = new ParseUser(); user.setUsername("my name"); user.setPassword("my pass");
//Adding users to roles
ParseRole role = new ParseRole(roleName, roleACL); for (ParseUser user : usersToAddToRole) { role.getUsers().add(user) }

17. Data modeling 128K maximum size permitted Parse is using MongoDB
Azure mobile services use Azure SQL DB (can change)
Define tables via portal
Creating columns dynamically
128K maximum size permitted
Task scannedTask = new Task();
scannedTask.put("title","SomeTitle");
scannedTask.put("assigned_to", ParseUser.getCurrentUser());
scannedTask.put("fulfilled", false);
scannedTask.saveInBackground

18. Data relations One-to-Many Many-to-Many One-to-One pointers and arrays
parse relations, joint tables, arrays
One-to-One
ParseRelation<ParseObject> relation = book.getRelation("authors"); relation.add(authorOne);

19. Accessing the data
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery("Task"); query.whereEqualTo("title", "SomeTitle"); query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseObject>() { public void done(List<ParseObject> taskList, ParseException e) { if (e == null) { Log.d("tasks", "Retrieved " + taskList.size() + " tasks"); } else { Log.d("tasks", "Error: " + e.getMessage()); } } });

20. Cloud code
Parse.Cloud.beforeSave(Parse.User, function(request, response) { var user = request.object; if (!user.get(" ")) { response.error("Every user must have an address."); } else { response.success(); } });

21. Cloud code Parse.Cloud.beforeSave Parse.Cloud.afterSave
Parse.Cloud.beforeDelete
Parse.Cloud.afterDelete
Parse.Cloud.define("SomeFunction", function(request, response) { . }
[PFCloud
block:^(NSArray *results, NSError *error) { if (!error) { // this is where you handle the results and change the UI. } }];

22. Analytics
Map<String, String> dimensions = new HashMap<String, String>(); // Define ranges to bucket data points into meaningful segments dimensions.put("priceRange", " "); // Did the user filter the query? dimensions.put("source", "craigslist"); // Do searches happen more often on weekdays or weekends? dimensions.put("dayType", "weekday"); // Send the dimensions to Parse along with the 'search' event ParseAnalytics.trackEvent("search", dimensions);

23. Push notifications push.gcm.send(results[0].handle, item.text, {
success: function(response) {
console.log('Push notification sent: ', response)
}, error: function(error) {
console.log('Error sending push notification: ', error); }

24. Portal demo
If we have time?

25. Conclusion

26. Q&A

27. One more thing :)
mobiledevelope.rs

29. My contact info M: L: