[aerogear-dev] Announcing AeroGear-iOS 2.0

[Daniel Bevenius]

Great work!

On 20 October 2014 18:03, Lucas Holmquist <lholmqui at redhat.com> wrote:

> Awesome!!
>
> On Oct 20, 2014, at 11:59 AM, Christos Vasilakis <cvasilak at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> today we are proud to announce AeroGear-iOS 2.0 codename ‘Swift’. It was
> not long time ago, at WWDC 2014, where Apple announced the Swift
> programming language and took developers by surprise, and for a good
> reason. It provides a modern and familiar syntax that borrows proven
> concepts from various languages (including functional ones). Developers who
> were reluctant to try objective-c because of it’s C and C++ heritage and
> it’s somehow ‘obscure' syntax, now have a reason to look again (and judging
> from their responses liked what they saw)
>
> As apple stated in their blog [1]
>
> *"Swift is ready to use today, in brand new apps or alongside your proven
> Objective-C code. We have big plans for the Swift language, including
> improvements to syntax, and powerful new features..“*
>
> We immediately understood the importance of the new language and jumped
> in. Today we are releasing the first 'fruits' of our endeavour, and in
> particular:
>
> - *aerogear-ios-http* [2]
>   A networking library built on top of NSURLSession offering a convenient
> API for accessing RESTful services, performing download/upload (including
> multipart) as well as extension points to provide your own serialisers for
> request / response (with JSON serialisers be the default)
> - *aerogear-ios-oauth2 *[3]
>  An OAuth2 module build on top of 'aerogear-ios-http’  supporting common
> providers such as Google, Facebook and our own JBoss solution Keycloak[4] .
> A pluggable system is also provided so external developers you plug-in
> their own support for their favorite provider. You can read more of this
> integration (including a screencast) on the excellent blog post written
> from my friend Corinne [5]
> -*aerogear-ios-push [7]*
>  If you are using AeroGear Unified Push Server[8] and our iOS push-sdk in
> your objective-c applications, we are happy to announce that we have ported
> the SDK to Swift including all our demos[9] and quick starts[10]. No more
> messing with 'Bridging Headers' and the like. Just drag and drop the
> framework in your own application and you are ready to go.
> -*aerogear-ios-httpstub [11]*
> A handy networking stub library written entirely in swift developed to
> support our efforts, but it can be possible proved useful in your own
> projects too.
>
> Now, regarding our 1.6.x branch of aerogear-ios we have decided to cease
> the development of that branch (apart from critical bug fixes) and focus
> all our efforts in porting the libraries to Swift. Already the base
> functionality has been ported (and hopefully improved) but we still have a
> long way to go. Most importantly our OTP and Crypto functionality libraries
> haven’t been ported yet (but we are planning to), but still they are useful
> on their own right in your objective-c projects (or in Swift if you decide
> to go with a mixed environment)
>
> Last but not least,
> Swift as a language is improving rapidly and only recently has been tagged
> as an 1.0 release[12]. Real world usage though showed that still has a long
> way to go. As an iOS team though we will work hard to update our ‘current’
> and ‘future’ libraries with latest developments so expect to see frequent
> releases in that front.
>
> So give our libraries and demos[13] a try, we will be happy to hear your
> thoughts and suggestions.
>
> Enjoy!
>
> ++
> Corinne && Christos
>
>
> [1] https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=2
> [2] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-http/tree/0.1
> [3] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-oauth2/tree/0.1
> [4] http://keycloak.jboss.org
> [5]
> http://corinnekrych.org/2014/10/aerogear-with-keycloak-oauth2-friends.html
> [7] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-push/zipball/2.0.0
> [8] http://aerogear.org/push/
> [9]
> https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-push-helloworld/tree/swift/ios-swift
> [10] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-push-quickstarts/tree/swift
> [11] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-httpstub/tree/0.1
> [12] https://developer.apple.com/swift/blog/?id=14
> [13] https://github.com/aerogear/aerogear-ios-cookbook
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