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M Y J O U R N E Y O N T H E W A L K O F C L A I M
B U I L D I N G A M O B I L E A P P W I T H M E T E O R
L E T ’ S C R E AT E A G A M EA C T I - E X P O S I T I O N
W A L K I N G I S A T H I N G I N 2 0 1 5
W A L K I N G I S A T H I N G I N 2 0 1 5
Keep it engaging!
Keep it casual!
• Meteor
• Nodejs
• MongoDB
• Apache Cordova for running on Android and iOS
• Iron:Router
• Meteoric aka Ionic
• LeafletJS
• Turfjs with lots of GeoJSON
• OpenStreetMap and Stamen Map Tiles
+ Special guest appearances by Twitter and Facebook
L E T ’ S B U I L D S O M E T H I N G N E W
M E E T T H E P L AY E R S
L E T ’ S H A C K T H I S T O G E T H E RA C T I I - R I S I N G A C T I O N
P O I N T S , L I N E S T R I N G S , A N D P O LY G O N S
G E O J S O N F E A T U R I N G
– M E , C A . 2 8 4 T I M E S ( T O D AY )
“Where the f#?! did this come from?”
W R A P P I N G F U N C T I O N A L I T Y I N PA C K A G E S
O R G A N I Z E A L L T H E T H I N G S
• Small functional units
• Share methods whenever possible
• Use isomorphic packages!!!
• Use better naming conventions
• Think really hard about return values
• Sometimes Session is really useful!
I T ’ S A L I V E !A C T I I I - C L I M A X
D A B B L I N G W I T H C O O R D SC H R O M E L O C A T I O N E M U L A T I O N F O R T H E W I N
H O W T O P L AY
• Waiting for the bus? Walk around!
• Going running? Claim some land!
• Been there, done that? Discover new places and extend your empire!
Q U A N T I F I E D C L A I M I N G
• Personal stats and Top 10
• Each claim triggers score calculation
• Denormalized data (pre-aggregated)
• Clicking on metrics opens Top 10
P R I VA C Y
• People don’t like sharing location with social networks
• Full control over which data is shared
• Deleting the account
I T ’ S A S TA R , N O T A F E AT U R E
J U M P Y G P S A N D W A L K I N G S TA R S
B U G S , P I T FA L L S , A N D R E J E C T I O NA C T I V - FA L L I N G A C T I O N
T E C H N I C A L C H A L L E N G E S
• Bugs in used libs
• Editing inputs on Android (Ionic)
• Hot code push on iOS breaks things
• Bugs in my code
• Linestring to Polygon conversion
• Not creating isomorphic packages
• Testing
• Simulating geolocation
• Simulating load
E N T E R : T H E A P P S T O R E S
• A dozen steps to production
• Review times for distributing beta versions
• Pray the copyright androids work in your favour
• Hot code push is great - when it works (e.g. meteor issue #4496)
C L A I M A L L T H E L A N D SA C T V - R E S O L U T I O N
Soon on the app stores
Q U E S T I O N S ?T H E E N D