Jason, It is awesome to see your enthusiasm. My personal preference would be that we don’t work from the Apigee SDK. That codebase is quite old and is definitely not the way we would architect it from scratch today.
Your idea of using RESTKit or AFNetworking is great. As you select libraries to use, be mindful of their license compatibility with Apache. RESTKit is Apache 2.0 already, so that is perfect. The one question I have is unit / e2e testing. That is something that is really missing in the current iOS SDK. At one point, there was some work done with Lua to create a little framework for testing but it never really went anywhere. Having guardrails in place from the start would make it a lot easier for other developers to get in and help work on the project. #4, interoperation with Swift would be great. What are you thinking about for handling JSON? And of course, #5 would be icing on the cake :) Rod -- Rod Simpson @rockerston rodsimpson.com On November 11, 2014 at 8:44:48 PM, Jason Kristian (jas...@apps4u.com.au) wrote: HI All , Ive been looking at updating the iOS SDK which Ive got some good ideas for now there are a few options on what can be done for example with could build on the current SDK or fork apogee iOS sdks , or we can start fresh and use a networking Library as it core like AFNetworking or RESTKit which its self is build on AFNetworking, IM happy to put the time into this and I can spare one staff member to help me but I don’t want t start as I think these core idea need to be decided by the Usergrid community. So I would love some feed back on how this should be designed Ive got some of my own Idea which I’ll share now. 1- I think it should be package managed from the start. — CocoaPods 2- I think it should take advantage of other libraries — why reinvent the wheel. there are plenty of good networking libraries at are well supported that will handle networking better . 3- I should be easy to extend easy to add new collection model classes. 4- I use Good objective-c convention to better interoperate with Swift. 5- Be fun to use.. Any thought would be good as I said I’m happy to put the work in I just need a path to follow. these Idea are just mine if this is not what every one whats then I’ll go along with whats decided . Jason Kristian | Director | Apps 4 U Pty Ltd. ph: +61 075699 8109 mob: +61 0411 389 392 e: Jason Kristian <mailto:jas...@apps4u.com.au>
