Building an iOS App with Nuxeo

2013-10-09 Jean-Marc OrliaguetThursday, October 17, 13

Building an iOS app with Nuxeo

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Background

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• Chalmers University of Technology is located on two campuses in the city of Gothenburg, Sweden.

• An app to help students find their way around the campuses and the city.

• Architecture:• A geographic information system (GIS) and a collection

of web services.

• A proxy to external information systems (travel information, room bookings, restaurant menus, etc)

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On the client-side

• iOS: iPhone, iPad, available today in the App Store (name: ”Find Your Way at Chalmers”)

• Administration UI: MacOS app

• Interactive web map (HTML5): Fall 2013

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The iOS app

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The interactive map (Web)

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The administraion UI (MacOS)

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Works as a DMS

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Server: Nuxeo / Tomcat / SQL• Nuxeo: NXSQL / WebEngine (REST, JSON, SOAP)

• Document types: Areas, Buildings, Room, Facilities, Photos

• Geographic information of every object (points, polygons) as of today +1000 documents

• Information arranged in a tree structure mirroring the objects’ geography

• A proxy to other live information systems, SOAP -> JSON

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Live search

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Live search uses nuxeo NXSQL query engine:

- Ability to build complex queries.

- High performance

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Map server

• Geographic information is licensed from OpenStreetMap

• A map server (Mapnik + Nginx) managed from nuxeo

• Many levels of cache (client + server) - Redis

• Live rendering of buildings and areas (parking, etc)

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Map rendering: mapnik

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”Documents” (buildings) are drawn on the map:

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Future

• Android app: early 2014

• Finding employees with building / floor location.

• Information stands, large iPads ?

• Very large touch screens, glass wall projection.

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Questions

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!Thank you

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