Build materials for the App Dev Schools initiative
Meeting agenda and possible work items to think about:
- Determine prerequisites, target audience, essential information and length of course.
- Review existing documentation; determine which facts require new materials (diagrams, slides, code samples, demos).
- Work with Design team in creating those materials.
- Write speaker notes.
- (Optional) Investigate if we can ship those materials in QtCreator itself.
- (Optional) Investigate translatability of materials.
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Not started
- Approver:
- Jono Bacon
- Priority:
- Undefined
- Drafter:
- Daniel Holbach
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Daniel Holbach
- Definition:
- New
- Series goal:
- Accepted for trusty
- Implementation:
-
Unknown
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Completed by
Whiteboard
Notes:
- Length: Full-day course, half-day course.
- One workshop on QML, one workshop on HTML5? Two on a day might be too much.
- Possible reuse of materials:
- workshop by dpm
- workshop by karni from Deview on QML apps
- tutorials from d.u.c?
- Provide offline materials in an editable form for the LoCos to adapt them
- Possibly allow upload of translated materials
- Good idea to provide full source code, then uncomment code gradually.
- Content to cover:
- Intro, Get Set Up - already covered in dpm's presentation (+ speaker notes)
- developer.u.c tutorial: http://
massaged into slide form + 'script')
- clarify how to blow the fonts up in size if required (the proper way of scaling up, as
xlarge may feel pretty small on the laptop)
- Basic content:
- Platform overview
- SDK installation and overview
- Writing a QML app
- Writing an HTML5 app
- Creating and submitting a click package
- What next! Where do you go after this session?
- Platform APIs
- integration from HTML5 with Unity (hud, bottom panel, ...)
- sensors, platform apis (Cordova and QML)
- storing/accessing data - Content hub, Ubuntu Content API
- translations (but too much for one session already)
- Advanced?
- app lifecycle
- writing Unity scope!
- Allow commenting utilizing comment system on d.u.c?
- How to announce the app dev school
- Mailing lists
- LoCos
Work Items
Work items for ubuntu-13.12:
[dpm] Upload the initial content (2 workshops, and a presentation - http://
[karni] share materials for apps workshop with dpm and dholbach (lp:~karni/+junk/utouch-soundboard): DONE
[karni] share the TODO app (written both in QML and in HTML5) (lp:~karni/+junk/todo-qt - lp:~karni/+junk/todo-html5): DONE
[dholbach] review both sets of workshop material (David+Michał): DONE
[dholbach] merge both sets of workshop material, resolve open questions: INPROGRESS
[dpm] Write a tutorial on translations: TODO
[dpm] Update Cordova template to be more Ubuntu-like (e.g replace the Cordova icon, make it do something useful, can be very simple though): TODO
[dpm] Create a public list of the missing topics we don't have yet material for: TODO
[karni] Look into which tutorial is better re: writing unity scopes (d.u.c or xda): DONE
Work items:
[dpm] Set up a section for App Dev Schools on d.u.c: TODO
[dholbach] announce app dev school project: TODO
[dholbach] ask for help, ask for feedback, ask for content, ask for questions: TODO
[dholbach] work with LoCo Council to spread the news, help with user-testing, having first sessions: TODO
Cover "app dev lifecycle" (re-use spec docs): TODO
Cover storing/accessing data (re-use Rick's blogpost, ask for permission): TODO
Cover accessing sensors: TODO
