How is Trello iPhone app developed?

Question

I was wondering which libraries or frameworks Trello iphone app is using.

Is it a webapp with JS framework? if yes, which one?

Or is it native? which frameworks for this here?

I'm curious because I really like the UI, and has searched the internet without luck.

Hawaii

Answer 1

I'm on the Trello team and wrote the iPhone app. It's all native code except for the attachment viewer, which is just a WebView. We use RestKit to communicate with our API and help cache the data locally to CoreData. Otherwise, it's just a bunch of custom UIViews and UIViewControllers.

Maroc

Wow that's just great. I'm already using RestKit - I thought you were using some special framework with benefits for the coding effects. Thanks for your quick resopnse. – Hawaii

How do you push live data from server to ios app? APNS or sockets or what? :) I'm curious Thanks – Hawaii

All data is pulled at the moment. – Maroc

Justin Gallagher: So you keep a persistent connection open, right? – Hawaii

You cache data locally, but why don't you allow to add new cards offline? I like web app, but I don't like iphone app because it doesn't work offline. – Willi

@JustinGallagher I really like how you guys did the Google auth on the trello app. When I use the google sign in framework it pops us out and back into the app. Did you guys do it differently to keep it all within the app? – Glassblowing

@JustinGallagher what UI component you have used in your dashboard , its very great. – Askins

Can you suggest how you have made kanban board using native code for iOS? – Dealings