Alfresco iOS Mobile Application In Depth Details and Design
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The document discusses Alfresco Mobile, an open source mobile app for Alfresco. It provides an overview of the app's architecture, which uses CMIS to communicate with Alfresco via REST. It demonstrates features like browsing, searching, and uploading content. The presenters describe Zia Consulting's role in developing the app and releasing the source code. They invite others to contribute and announce upcoming version 1.1 of the open source project.
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Alfresco iOS Mobile Application In Depth Details and Design
- 1. Alfresco Mobile Level Up Again, Technical Deep Dive Ryan McVeigh, Director, [email protected] Gi Lee, Principal Consultant, [email protected] Mike Muller, Director, [email protected] 11/1/2011 www.ziaconsulting.com 303.443.4004 x203
- 2. Who are we? • Ryan McVeigh • Director @ Zia • Responsible for Zia’s ECM Practice • CMIS Secretary and Technical Editor • Gi Lee • Principal Consultant @ Zia • Architect of Alfresco Mobile and Zia’s Fresh Docs products • CMIS Committee Member • Michael Muller • Director @ Zia • Zia Fresh Docs Inventor and Product Manager
- 3. Who is Zia? A firm with deep technical expertise & strategic insight, coupled with our Agile software methodology, provides numerous benefits to our customers: Benefits Our Partners • Achieve ROI by delivering improved operational efficiencies • Boost productivity by creating collaborative work environments • Maintain access and control of information through the enterprise • Allow employees to find the information they need, when they need it • Increase end-user adoption • Agile training by using Zia methodology and Rally tools • Raving fan customers Professional Qualifications • Highly-experienced, accredited senior staff consisting of Business Analysts, Enterprise Architects, Software Engineers and Data Architects • Platinum Alfresco Professional Services & OEM Partner • Platinum Ephesoft Partner • Alfresco 2010 Implementation of the Year with Denver • IBM, WeWebU and MuleSoft Partners
- 4. Agenda • Alfresco Mobile History • Architecture Overview • CMIS Refresher • Demo • Technical Deep Dive • Open Source Project • Roadmap & What’s Next? • Questions?
- 5. Alfresco Mobile History • Zia released Fresh Docs for iOS in December 2009 • Android application also available • Alfresco and Zia partnership entered this year for Alfresco Mobile
- 6. Architecture Overview • Mostly a CMIS application talking to Alfresco • Several features specific to Alfresco CMIS Alfresco REST
- 7. CMIS Refresher • CMIS TC Goals & Scope • Enable applications to target different ECM repositories uniformly • Provide a set of basic services enabling richer ECM applications and use cases • All for loose coupling of an ECM application on the underlying repository • Use popular protocol bindings • REST / AtomPub • Web Services / SOAP
- 8. Demo • Alfresco Mobile in Action – A Few Features • CMIS: • Login to Alfresco over HTTP or HTTPS • Browse, Search, Display Content and Edit Metadata, Upload Media • Create Folders • Alfresco • Alfresco Activities • Like & Unlike, Comment on Documents • iOS • Local Downloads • Multi Tasking
- 9. Design • Navigation-based application to browse a CMIS Repository • Universal Binary
- 10. iPhone UI Design Simple Layout • Navigation Bar • Custom View • Tab Bar
- 11. iPhone UI Components UITabBarController • Composed of a container for a tab bar and a custom view • Each “tab” contains a custom view
- 12. iPhone UI Components UINavigationController • Each “tab” contains it’s own instance a UINavigationController • Used for navigating hierarchical content • It’s a Stack!
- 13. iPhone UI Components Custom View • UITableViewController – Activities, Documents, Search, Downloads, Metadata, Comments, Upload Form, … • UIViewController – Document Preview & About View
- 14. iPad UI Design • Maintain the same navigation- based feel as the iPhone • Use familiar usage patterns • Use Split View provided by iOS SDK – Container that manages two side-by-side view controllers – Master-Detail Interface
- 16. Split View Master • Uses the same controllers as the iPhone interface • Portrait: Uses a UIPopover • Landscape: Static Container
- 18. Split View Detail • Contains a single UINavigationController that controls the Navigation Stack of the view
- 20. Feature to CMIS Service via AtomPub Binding Feature CMIS Service Browse & getChildren Company Home Download Document getContentStream Metadata getTypeDefinition Search Query Upload createDocument
- 21. Feature to Alfresco Service via Alfresco’s RESTful API Feature Alfresco Service Activities Feed Activity Service View & Add Tags Tagging Service Comments Comment Service Like a Document Rating Service Sites List Site Service Preference Service Person Service
- 22. In-Depth Review • Sequence of actions that occur from App Launch to loading of the Documents (Browse) tab. • CMIS Search Queries • Creating a RESTful HTTP Request for a CMIS AtomPub Service
- 23. Review: App Launch to Loading of Documents Tab 1. (CMIS) App Launch: Request AtomPub Service Document – Service Document XML is returned and parsed in RepositoryInfo objects 2. (Alfresco) Request Sites and parse the JSON response into RepositoryItem objects – Request Site Collection using Site Service – Request Favorite Sites using Preference Service – Request My Sites using Person Service 3. (CMIS) If Company Home is ON, request the folder children of the Root Collection – Atom Feed XML is returned and parsed into RepositoryItem objects
- 24. Review: CMIS Search Queries CMIS full-text search query: SELECT * FROM cmis:document WHERE CONTAINS(‘keywords’) CMIS query on cmis:name property: SELECT * FROM cmis:document WHERE CONTAINS('~cmis:name:’*keywords*'') – CMIS does not have the ability for case insensitive queries. LOWER() nor UPPER() predicate are not available
- 25. In-Depth Review: Creating an ObjectById HTTP Request At a High Level: 1. Parse out the ObjectById template URL from the service document 2. Create a new class that extends ASIHTTPRequest • Add an initialize method • Implement delegate methods requestFinished: and requestFailed:
- 26. Review in XCode • Project Structure in XCode • Steps Running Alfresco Mobile in the simulator • Running the GHUnit unit tests
- 27. Requirements to Get Started • Mac OSX with Snow Leopard or Lion • Apple iOS Developer Account • Latest Version of XCode 4 • Git • Objective-C & iOS Programming • Alfresco’s RESTful API • Alfresco’s RESTful CMIS AtomPub Binding
- 28. Open Source • Hosted on Bitbucket http://bit.ly/rrNdTc • Search for “alfresco-mobile” at bitbucket.org • Released under the Mozilla Public License Version 1.1 Alfresco Mobile 1.1 source code release by end of the week!
- 29. Roadmap • Features under future consideration • Browse Site Members • Search and Browse for People • Version History and Upload New Versions • Browse Recent Docs • More… • Alfresco Mobile Product Manager • Marc Dubresson • [email protected] Disclaimer: Neither Alfresco nor Zia are making any claims or commitments to deliver these features.
- 30. What’s Next? • Alfresco 1.1 coming any day • Code is Open Source • Happy to have contributors • Alfresco will coordinate releases of Alfresco Mobile • Zia will coordinate releases of Fresh Docs • If you want to release to the Apple App Store, contact us
- 31. Contact Us • Ryan McVeigh – ECM Business Owner: • [email protected] • Gi Lee – Fresh Docs Architect • [email protected] • Michael Muller – Fresh Docs PM • [email protected]