Drupalcon: Developing Apps For iPhone/iPad/Android Using Drupal As A Base System

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April 30, 2010

Drupalcon: Developing Apps For iPhone/iPad/Android Using Drupal As A Base System

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At Drupalcon San Francisco Aaron and I led a session on developing apps for iPhone/iPad/Android using drupal as base system. Here are slides and videos from that session:

Developing Apps for iPhone/iPad/Android using Drupal as Base System - Drupalcon 2010

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And the Video:

If you would prefer, you can download a higher resolution video from Archive.org.

In upcoming blog posts I will code and tutorials about this topic, some of which were covered in the DrupalCon session.

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John H (not verified) May 1, 2010

Sumit-

The work you have done on this front is great, and I have watched the presentation twice now and started to code away. I am getting hung up with Drupal's Services module as I seem to be getting nothing out of a views.get request when fetching it from Titanium. I am looking forward to taking a look at your code examples as though I get a response (I get a 200 response), the JSON data passed back always seems to be null.

Thanks once again.

John

Sumit Kataria May 1, 2010

Hi John,

I wanted to explain this in my next blog today but ... you need to make changes in json_module to use that code directly. xhr.send({data: JSON.stringify(view)}); is wrapping view variable (object) into another data variable and we need to remove this data varaible on serverside ... so changes to json_module are adding these 2 lines to json_server_server() function

$_POST = json_decode($_POST['data']);
$_POST = (array)$_POST;

This hack is only required for json_server module xmlrpc works out of box without any changes.

Download link to modified json_server module

Adrian (not verified) April 30, 2010

I'm curious will apple approve apps developed from Titanium mobile ?

As on the latest keynote, SJ said that new develeoper argreement on iphone os , apps developed from 3rd party tools will not be allowed to put on the app store.

Sumit Kataria April 30, 2010

Adrain,

Latest update from Titanium developers blog is here. Also http://www.apple.com/hotnews/thoughts-on-flash clearly tells change in TOS was targeted towards flash and Adobe.

From Titanium's blog:

"We’ve had over 50 applications approved for the App Store over the past 3 weeks under the new terms (which every developer now needs to agree to). Not a single one has been rejected for being built on Titanium. We even updated our own test app, Snapost, after accepting the new terms."

So atleast I am feeling strong about developing applications using Titanium for iPhone and Android.

SumitK