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Introduction

» Paul Foster» President CEO – Pick Up And Play» [email protected]

» Focus of information Vote on level of technical jargon Open forum ask questions right away Practical Examples

Topics

» Why add social networking?» Social Application Components

Application components Server components Client components

» Device/OS Specific capabilities» Examples

TAT Poker Prize Play MySpace iTorque

» Tips, Tricks and suggestions

Why Add Social Networking?» What are your goals?

Increase sales Capture user data Start a community It’s just cool

» Advantages of a phone vs PC Always with the user LBS and GPS information Direct connection to your user Contact lists built in

» Dis-Advantages of a phone vs PC Smaller screen User input Connection issues Development issues

Application Components

» What are your App’s pieces? The more interaction the higher level of complexity of

server/client code and error checking.

Server Components(first get a social networking server)

» Database Why use MySQL – Tip 1

» PHP, ASP, Sockets What type of application are you planning?

» http, https, ssl What type of data? Sensitive or Not?

» XML, SOAP, Text, Binary Wads What does the client support?

Client Components» Connection type

http(s) Sockets – Tip 2

TCP/IP UDP

» Data parsing Xml – Tip 3

» Data Display 1:1 Mapping – Tip 4 MVC – (Data View Controller)

Images, text, movies, sound Player location, scores, names, actions

Views within Views Local state vs network state

Client Components cont.

» Data Input User feedback

» Creating/Receiving packets All the data is the same parse it that

way – Tip 5

» Error handling/debugging Big piece of the puzzle More time spent here than thought

Server/Client Key Components

DATA

-API/SDK’s-Data Formats-Error handling-Security-Connection maintenance

Built in OS Components» J2me

javax.microedition.io.Connector» Brew

INetMgr ISocket IWeb

» Android Java java.net.Socket javax.xml.parsers MySql Lite Bonjour

» iPhone Objective C NSURL NSURLRequest NSURLConnection MySql Lite Bonjour

Examples

» TAT Poker PHP High Score

Unique Login Runs on j2me, Brew, iPhone

» Prize Play Turn based competition for prizes

Runs on Brew Uses phone unique info

» MySpace Complete social app

Runs on iPhone and Android Takes advantage of hi end phones

» iTorque Real time multiplayer app

Real time Chat

Tips, Tricks and Suggestions

» Tip 1 - MySQL Common backend for PHP or ASP Open source MySQL lite available on iPhone and Android

» Tip 2 - Sockets All platforms support sockets HTTP can go over sockets Sockets can be used for most advanced transport Sockets keep alive

» Tip 3 - XML Human readable SOAP Tools Automatic parsers available (tinyXML others)

Tips, Tricks and Suggestions» Tip 4 - Let the server do the work

Server already knows what device you are talking to

let it format the data for you Processing is there Less network traffic Less local/debugging

» Tip 5 - Abstract Classes Connect GetData PutData ParseData CreateData

» Bonus Tip - Always program like all network calls are asynchronous

Multi-threaded nature of networking

Questions?

» Open forum for questions.