// TALK · 2012 · WITH ALESSIO RICCO · IN ITALIAN
Mobile senza frontiere: Drupal e Titanium
A two-voice talk with Alessio Ricco, Titanium certified developer and organiser of the Ti.Roma meetup, from the years when I was creative director at nois3lab and taught open web technologies at IED. It picks up from a talk given the year before at MobileD! about the Medici Senza Frontiere app.
The brief: keep supporters informed about humanitarian projects in the field, let them donate from any phone (iOS, Android, BlackBerry) and keep content transparent and intact as it changes. The answer was a marriage: Drupal as the content backend exposed through web services, Titanium to ship a single JavaScript codebase as native apps on several platforms, with Alessio walking through windows, views and webview bridges in code. Three years later, at MobileTea #8, I opened my collection of app failures with this same app. 23 slides, about 600 views on Slideshare.
The brief: keep supporters informed about humanitarian projects in the field, let them donate from any phone (iOS, Android, BlackBerry) and keep content transparent and intact as it changes. The answer was a marriage: Drupal as the content backend exposed through web services, Titanium to ship a single JavaScript codebase as native apps on several platforms, with Alessio walking through windows, views and webview bridges in code. Three years later, at MobileTea #8, I opened my collection of app failures with this same app. 23 slides, about 600 views on Slideshare.