Family Tree in Your Pocket - How to Build an IPhone App Using Geni API

Date:

Friday, Mar 22

Time:

4:15 - 5:15 pm

Room:

257A

Session ID:

D20

Type:

Presentation

Difficulty:

Intermediate

Track:

Developer

Description

If you are an iOS developer (or interested in becoming one) and you would like to build mobile applications for genealogy, this presentation is for you!

During this presentation we will use XCode to build an iPhone app that will download, layout and display an interactive family tree, similar to the one used by the Flash application on Geni.com

We will use Geni’s OAuth library to authorize a user, load a family tree from Geni, learn how to position tree nodes by using Geni’s Cartesian coordinates, draw lines between the nodes, and much more.

Presenters

Michael Berkovich

Michael Berkovich is a Software Architect at MyHeritage (USA), former Geni. He developed some of the core applications within Geni, including Tr8n crowdsourced translation engine that is used to translate Geni to over 50 languages, Geni API platform that allows 3rd party developers to integrate with Geni, and many others. Michael is very passionate about programming and solving complex problems.