Workshop: building your mobile backend with Parse - Droidcon Paris2014

BUILDING YOUR MOBILE BACKEND WITH PARSE
ALI PARR
PLATFORM PARTNERSHIPS

IDENTITY
SHARING
PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
APP INSTALLS
MONETIZATION

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2 YEAR
CORE API STABILITY GUARANTEE

BUILD GROW
App Installs
Sharing
Messaging
MONETIZE
Payments
Audience Network
Parse
Login
App Events
App Links

UI BINDINGS
FILES
PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
SOCIAL
USER SESSIONS
DATA MODELS
CACHING
NETWORKING
APP BUSINESS LOGIC
APP SECURITY
MIDDLEWARE
ROUTING
RESTful API
DATABASE BINDINGS
LOAD BALANCING
PHYSICAL SERVERS

YOUR APP
UI BINDINGS
FILES
PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
SOCIAL
USER SESSIONS
DATA MODELS
CACHING
NETWORKING
APP BUSINESS LOGIC
APP SECURITY
MIDDLEWARE
ROUTING
RESTful API
DATABASE BINDINGS
LOAD BALANCING
PHYSICAL SERVERS

Parse Core Parse Push Parse Analytics

PARSE CORE
Your backend in the cloud
Save data to and fetch
data from Parse
Run custom app code on
Parse’s servers
Easily create and manage
user accounts and sessions

THE F8 APP
Key Value
Title
Everything You Need to Know About
Login
Time 12:30
Speaker Eddie O’Neil
isFavorite FALSE

SAVING TO PARSE
ParseObject talk = new ParseObject(”Talk”);
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SAVING TO PARSE
talk.put(“title”, “Opening Keynote”);
talk.put(“speaker”, “Mark Zuckerberg”);
talk.put(“time”, talkDate); // Date
talk.put(“isFavorite”, false);

SAVING TO PARSE
talk.put(“title”, “Opening Keynote”);
talk.put(“speaker”, “Mark Zuckerberg”);
talk.put(“time”, talkDate); // Date
talk.put(“isFavorite”, false);
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PARSE QUERY
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query =
ParseQuery.getQuery(”Talk”);
// Find only the talks that are in the Build track
query.whereEqualTo(”track”,”Build”);
query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseObject>(){
p ublic void done(List<ParseObject> buildTalks, ParseException e) {
if (e == null) {
// We have a list of all the Build track talks
} else {
// Something went wrong; check the ParseException
}
}

PARSE QUERY
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query =
ParseQuery.getQuery(”Talk”);
}
// Find only the talks that are in the Build track
query.whereEqualTo(”track”,”Build”);
query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseObject>(){
p ublic void done(List<ParseObject> buildTalks, ParseException e) {
if (e == null) {
// We have a list of all the Build track talks
} else {
// Something went wrong; check the ParseException
}
}

PARSE SOCIAL
Easy User & Session Management
Sign up
Improve app
security with ACLs
Log in & add 3rd Create Roles
party auth
Manage user session
with “currentUser”

SIGN UP A PERSON

SIGN UP A PERSON
ParseUser user = new ParseUser();
user.setUsername(”janedoe”);
user.setPassword(”mypass123”);
user.setEmail(”janedoe@fb.com”);
user.signUpInBackground();

LOG A PERSON IN

LOG A PERSON IN
ParseUser.logInInBackground( ”janedoe”,
”mypass123”, new LogInCallback() {
public void done(ParseUser user, ParseException e) {
if (user != null) {
// The user is logged in
} else {
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SAVING TO PARSE WITH A CURRENT USER
ParseObject post = new ParseObject(”Post”);

post.put(“title”, “Restrict screen orientation”);
post.put(“author”, ParseUser.getCurrentUser());
post.put(“topic”, “Android”);
post.put(“content”, ”How can I make my app work in portrait
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post.put(“title”, “Restrict screen orientation”);
post.put(“author”, ParseUser.getCurrentUser());
post.put(“topic”, “Android”);
post.put(“content”, ”How can I make my app work in portrait
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SAVE A FILE
byte[] data = myPhotoObject.toByteArray();

SAVE A FILE
ParseFile speakerPhoto = new ParseFile(”hector_bw.jpg”, data);
speakerPhoto.saveInBackground();

SAVE A FILE
ParseFile speakerPhoto = new ParseFile(”hector_bw.jpg”, data);
speakerPhoto.saveInBackground();
ParseObject speaker = new ParseObject(”Speaker”);
picture.put(”name”, ”Héctor Ramos”);
picture.put(”photo”, speakerPhoto);
picture.saveInBackground();

CLOUD CODE
Run custom app code in Parse’s cloud
Run code when objects
are saved or deleted
Create custom functions
and web hooks
Schedule long-running jobs
with Background Jobs

CLOUD MODULES
Easy third-party integration
with pre-built modules
Send email Take payments
Add SMS to your
app
Connect with any RESTful service
using Parse.Cloud.httpRequest

BACKGROUND JOBS
Schedule long-running jobs
For operations that need
to be performed regularly
or on command
Longer timeouts—
15 minutes
Trigger from the web
UI or REST endpoint

A SIMPLE JOB

A SIMPLE JOB
Parse.Cloud.job(”lowercaseallthethings”, function (request, status) {
// Set up to modify user data
Parse.Cloud.useMasterKey();
// Query for all users
var query = new Parse.Query(Parse.User);
query.each(function(user) {
// Set and save the change
user.set(”name”, user.name.toLowerCase());
return user.save();
}).then(function() {
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status.success(”All users now have lowercase names”);
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});
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}

Parse.enableLocalDatastore();
ParseQuery<ParseObject> query = ParseQuery.getQuery(“GameScore");
query.orderByDescending(“score”);
query.fromLocalDatastore();
query.findInBackground(new FindCallback<ParseObject>() {
...
});
Parse Local Datastore

Parse Config
Create and manage configuration variables for your apps from the Parse Dashboard

INSTALLATIONS
1 device + 1 install of your app = 1 Installation
Pushes are sent to
Installations
Add relationships to objects
of interest, e.g. users
ParseInstallation.getCurrentInstallation().saveInBackground();

PUSH TARGETING
Channels vs Queries
Target stable interest
groups with channels
Send pushes to ad-hoc or
changing groups by
pushing to queries
To push to a query, your
Installation class must point
to the class of interest

PUSH TO A CHANNEL

PUSH TO A CHANNEL
ParsePush push = new ParsePush();
push.setChannel(”PSGFans”);
push.setMessage(”The game starts now on channel 5!”);
push.sendInBackground();

PUSH TO A QUERY

PUSH TO A QUERY
ParseQuery pushQuery = ParseInstallation.getQuery();
pushQuery.whereEqualTo(”hasCheckedInToVenue”, true);
ParsePush push = new ParsePush();
push.setQuery(pushQuery);
push.setMessage(”The keynote is about to start!”);
push.sendInBackground();

PARSE ANALYTICS
Measure App Usage
API calls
Burst rates Responses to push
notifications

CUSTOM EVENTS
Events + Dimensions
Create your own events
and track custom user
behaviour
Slice and dice your data
however you choose
Save additional
parameters with
dimensions

CUSTOM EVENTS
event: "signedUp"
dimensions: {
gender: "f",
source: "web",
friendsUsingApp: "35",
wasReferred: "true"
}

CUSTOM EVENTS

CUSTOM EVENTS
Map<String, String> dimensions = new HashMap<String, String>();
// Add key-value pairs to be saved alongside event
dimensions.put(”gender”,”f”);
dimensions.put(”source”,”web”);
// Consider using buckets to meaningfully segment events
dimensions.put(”friendsUsingApp”,”25-50”);
dimensions.put(”wasReferred”,”true”);
ParseAnalytics.trackEvent(”signup”, dimensions);

CUSTOM EVENTS
Knowledge is Power
Is the first level of my
game too hard?
Why aren’t people
completing purchases
in my app?
How successful was our
last push campaign?

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Over260,000Apps Built!
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