insiders guide to mobile app development

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The Insider’s Guide to Mobile Apps

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Dormain Drewitz Director, Mobile and Data Services

Pivotal @DormainDrewitz

Farhan Thawar VP of Engineering

Pivotal Labs @fnthawar

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“Pivotal Labs delivers results in mobile like no one else in their business. From strategy to design and engineering, the team at Pivotal Labs are world-class and a pleasure to work with.”

- Jim Chou, CTO, Shutterstock

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Go native

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Native versus cross-platform tools

• You’re still going to need to use native toolsets to compile code

• Tweaking and customizing from a cross-platform toolkit is time better spent

• Take best advantage of latest O/S and device features

• Relying on web technologies puts your app 18 months behind

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Update often.

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Traditional App Lifecycle: Too Lengthy and Complex Traditional App Deployment: 8+ manual steps, developers out of the workflow

Traditional App Lifecycle: Each phase compounds time and complexity, sacrificing agility

Example: Intel’s traditional app lifecycle Example: Rakuten’s traditional app deployment process

Request Servers

Wait for hardware/VM creation

Setup Operating System

Install Software

Setup monitoring

Deploy website

Check / Test

Add to Load Balancer

...

Developer Operators

75 steps, 9% automated

140 days to land an app

Potential lost revenue opportunity

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“With Cloud Foundry, you can reduce [deployment] time to days and use fewer resources to do it—there is an order of magnitude improvement in time to market and risk.”

- Patrick Senti, Founder and CTO shrebo

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Build for “compulsive scale”.

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What is “compulsive-scale”?

"Halifax bank, Commercial Street, Leeds (27th May 2010)" by Mtaylor848 -

Every other week Once a day 20+x a day

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Manage APIs.

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Farhan’s Mobile API Top Tips

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“The desire to build mobile applications that integrate more tightly with corporate back-ends is rising [...] As mobile apps spread more and more into the mainstream, these companies will be looking for extended back-end support like Pivotal CF Mobile Services.”

- Michael Coté, Research Director, 451 Research

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Keep apps focused.

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Multi-app strategies and app unbundling are happening. And it makes sense.

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Use sensor data.

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“Gathering and analyzing data to improve our customers' operations is no longer a futuristic concept, but a real process underway today, and growing in magnitude.”

- David Joyce, president & CEO, GE Aviation

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Rethink testing

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App Distribution as a service

• Iterative release cycles

• Over-the-air download

• Cross-platform support

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