Appcelerator Titanium Alloy Backbone Sync Adapter to IBM BlueMix Technology with Promises and ListView binding Link to Source code - https://github.com/aaronksaunders/tiConnectSampleApp Link to associated JIRA ticket - https://jira.appcelerator.org/browse/ALOY-1174

1. Backbone Sync and
Appcelerator Alloy
Aaron K. Saunders
CEO Clearly Innovative Inc
Co-Founder Startup Middle School

2. Who Am I
 Founder & CEO Clearly Innovative Inc
 Clearly Innovative Inc
 Full Services Digital Agency, Web & Mobile Solutions
 Built Award Winning Solution for Queens Public Library
 Multiple solutions & clients over last 4 years using
Appcelerator Titanium
 Former Appcelerator Platform Evangelist
 Author of upcoming book on Appcelerator Alloy
and Appcelerator Cloud Services

3. Shameless Plug

4. Appcelerator Titanium Alloy
 MVC Framework for building Apps with Titanium
 Borrows heavily from BackboneJS for Model and
Collection Framework
 Model & Collection binding integrated into View
functionality of Alloy
 Model & Collection functionality === Seperation of
Concerns in applications

5. Backbone
Backbone.js gives structure to web
applications by providing models with key-value
binding and custom events, collections
with a rich API of enumerable functions,
views with declarative event handling, and
connects it all to your existing API over a
RESTful JSON interface.

6. Backbone In Alloy
 Models
 Keep track of your data
 Collections
 Manage lists/arrays of your data
 Sync Adapter(s)
 Local Storage, SQL, Properties, extendable

7. Backbone Sync Adapter
 Support for managing application data/content
 Based on common REST verbs
 GET > READ
 PUT > UPDATE
 POST > CREATE
 DELETE > DELETE
 Can be integrated with local or remote data
stores

8. Connecting to REST
Endpoint
 IBM Bluemix REST Data Store sample JSON format

9. Added Promises to
Adapter
 Better way to manage asychronous calls in code
 Removes this from code

10. Why Should You Care
 Apps spend A LOT of time getting data
 Apps spend A LOT of time integrating with REST
APIs
 Having common pattern for interacting with data
is a good thing
 Its easy to do !!
 Lots of information on Backbone Models available

11. Added Promises to
Adapter
 Better way to manage asychronous calls in code
 Removes this from code

12. SAMPLE CODE TIME

13. Final Thoughts
 Code with Readme and Presentation
 https://github.com/aaronksaunders/tiConnectSampl
eApp
 Information on Promises
 https://github.com/kriskowal/q
 Slides

14. Thanks
@aaronksaunders
http://www.clearlyinnovative.co
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