App-Development

As a developer, it is essential to explore powerful and reliable backend solutions to create rich iOS applications. Drupal stands out as one of the leading open-source content management systems (CMS). With its extensibility, security, and powerful API capabilities, utilizing Drupal as a backend for iOS applications can be an exciting and effective choice. This session aims to provide you with an in-depth understanding of how to leverage Drupal's capabilities as an iOS application backend, focusing on practical solutions for the most common challenges developers face. We have designed this session to help developers create robust iOS applications by harnessing Drupal's strengths in handling in-app purchases, receipt validation, and REST API integrations. In this presentation, we will deep into the utilization of the Apple Store Server Notifications contrib module, the intricacies of Apple's receipt validation process, and implementing REST APIs using Drupal's REST and JSON API modules. By exploring some real-world examples and best practices, this session will equip you with the knowledge and tools necessary to build your next iOS app with confidence.

Search API is a powerful module family. However, it is not easy to build decoupled searches using Search API. Therefore we have created a new module called search_api_decoupled, that exposes search configurations and provides an API endpoint for querying. The module has UIs to control all configurations and re-uses existing modules such as the layout module from core, facets, and search_api_autocomplete. In the session we showcase the new module together with a decoupled search app based on React, Webcomponents, and Tailwind.

Godot is an Open Source game development engine which benefits from a content management like Drupal providing a complete experience in both video games and web applications. Godot is able to fetch content and assets from Drupal and create or update them directly from the game, creating a more engaging experience. At the same time, Drupal could integrate complex GUIs built on Godot enhancing its user experience.

When we talk about migrating data to a Drupal, I feel like the first thing everyone thinks of is: using migrate module. And sure it is helpful, but can it be used for every use case we can find? We'll see about that.