icanzilb/eventblankapp

A free open source iOS app for events or conferences. Read more on the app's webpage:

EventBlank iOS App

I go to a lot of conferences and events and noticed that few of them have a proper iPhone app.

And I can understand that - there are so many things the organizers have to take care of … and a nice app takes a lot of time do develop.

My goal with this project is to provide a free open source blueprint, which will allow creating an event/conference iPhone app in a matter of ~ 1 hour. The project will aim to have as few as possible dependanies so that it can be cloned from GitHub and built immediately.

This project is currently in alpha stage. You will need Xcode 6.4 for building it.

Video demo of the alpha build so far: https://vimeo.com/132935515

Project Timeline

• End of August, 2015 - beta version / 1.0 version

• September, 2015 - first pilot project at a real event

• October, 2015 - second pilot project at a real event

• End of December, 2015 - stable 1.0 release

• 2016 - tell your friends about the project and we’ll see...

Credit

Author: Marin Todorov

• http://www.underplot.com
• https://twitter.com/icanzilb

More about Marin:

iOS Animations by Tutorials, Author

iOS Animations by Emails Newsletter, Author

My name is Marin Todorov. I like open sourcing my code and I really would like to help any event no matter small or big to have a proper iPhone app :]

This source code is distributed under a Attribution MIT license.

If you build your event/conference app you must to leave in the Credit screen with the project information and the Acknowledgments screen which lists the CocoaPods used (also legally you are obliged to do that).

Contributing

At this stage please contact me before contributing code. All my contacts are here: http://www.underplot.com

eventblankapp's Issues

show full speaker photo

on speaker details screen show full photo when the user taps the thumb

deep link to settings from within the app

when the user has not authorized access to accounts:
http://natashatherobot.com/ios-taking-the-user-to-settings/

add an extra tab with even info

add a "Main" tab to show the event data + current running sessions

Create a FeedViewController class

News and Chatter share tons of code - abstract it in a parent class

Show/Hide audience chatter

Check if twitter_chatter is 0 or 1 in the events table of the eventblank file. Respectively hide or show the Chatter segment in the Feed tab of the app

Speaker details: open speaker URL in the app

Speaker details: open speaker URL in the app via the web VC

Enlarge Favorites button

Make the button a bit bigger so that it's easier to toggle favorites in the Session List:

ver. 1.1 brought with it an older versoion of the eventblank file

1.0 was updated to the latest data file, and so was nsdefaults and the etag, 1.1 came with a data file before the one that was online and user defaults etag was preserved and 1.1 showed older data than what I had in 1.0

question is - is the data file still in Library? it should be - and if so how to keep using it?

Feed list: Links should open in-app

The links in tweets should open a web VC and not take the user out of the app. The links however are managed by a UITextView so not sure how to "catch" a link being tapped and opening it in the web VC

Provide the Credits content

Add the final text to the Credits VC

speaker image looks blurred

on speaker details - when tap the user photo - the big speaker image looks blurred

Add an alert for "event ended"

Upon starting the app it should check the date in the event file and the current date and if the event has passed show an alert to let the user know they are looking at an old content.

"The event happened from [begin date] to [end date]. You can still browse the session list and check the news feed." (refine text later)

remove prototyping code and improve scrolling

• News view controller
• Chatter view controller
• Schedule view controller
• Speakers view controller
• Speaker details view controller

hide keyboard when pushing a speaker details screen

hide keyboard when pushing a speaker details screen (in case it's visible bcz of the search bar)

session list needs footer - last session in the list not fully visible

session list needs footer - last session in the list not fully visible

remove delay from heart filter button

remove delay from heart filter button + maybe add a short message to make sure people realize they pushed a button ...

search controller

search controller is broken on either ios8 or ios9 - I feel best is to just replace it with 3rd party search controller ...

session details - no twitter for the speaker still @ visible

session details - no twitter for the speaker still @ visible

status bar style

the app needs tocheck the color of the nav bar and decide whether to use a dark or light status bar

Improve layout: Feed list cell

I laid down the feed cell - need a designer to beautify it

Add "follow speaker"

Add "follow speaker" button to the session details so the user can follow the speaker with one tap on Twitter:

Show all sessions by a favorite speaker as favorites

Show all sessions by a favorite speaker as favorites in the Sessions list.
Include a small icon next to speaker name to denote favorite speakers (only in case its a favorite speaker, otherwise don't show the empty heart)

spinner remains behind a photo preview

remove the white background of the spinner as well - it's visible behind smaller photos

Speaker details: add "follow on Twitter" button

Speaker details: add "follow on Twitter" button

Twitter auth crash

"Just a heads up that if you decline Twitter account access on the Feed tab of the app, it crashes and will always then crash if you try to visit that tab. Thanks!”

Speaker details: open the links from the speaker's bio in the app

Again - the bio is a UITextView, not sure how to catch taps on the links

composing with image from the new pager control doesn't present

Warning: Attempt to present <SLComposeViewController: 0x16b5e170> on <EventBlank.FeedViewController: 0x15564100> which is already presenting (null)

layout crash on speaker details screen

2015-10-01 11:11:48.299 EventBlank[3923:2127992] Warning once only: Detected a case where constraints ambiguously suggest a height of zero for a tableview cell's content view. We're considering the collapse unintentional and using standard height instead.
2015-10-01 11:11:53.858 EventBlank[3923:2128040] *** Assertion failure in void _UIPerformResizeOfTextViewForTextContainer(NSLayoutManager *, UIView *, NSTextContainer *, NSUInteger)(), /SourceCache/UIFoundation_Sim/UIFoundation-376.14/UIFoundation/TextSystem/NSLayoutManager_Private.m:1547

Feed list: User photo

User photos seem blurred in the news/chatter feeds. I wonder why and how to fix that?

Feed: Preview for images

Right now images just push a web VC and load the image - it's gonna be nicer to have an image preview popup like in Facebook or Twitter instead and don't take the user to a different VC

Check for a newer .eventblank file in the app bundle

When you rebuild the Xcode project and you included a newer version of the .eventblank file in the project it does not get copied again to the Library folder and used in the app.

Check the modification date maybe and see if it's a newer one?

show alert when filtering favorite speakers

show alert when filtering favorite speakers

basic iOS9 compatibility bugs

• feed screen - no segment control visible in the nav bar
• speakers - search bar appears by default and in the wrong position

Launch Screen

It'd be perfect if Launch Screen can show the colors + the event and organizer names.

Here's my idea - the view in LaunchScreen.xib can have a custom view class, that could grab the event data and show it on the start screen. Try that

Research: What to do with the ternary color?

Is there a need of a ternary color at all in the iOS app? Maybe we can generate extra colors by using the DynamicColor pod.

Include the conference logo

Add it to a start screen and on the More screen.

Improve layout: Speakers list cell

Designer to make the speaker cell more beautiful.

Session details: "remind me" button

Add a "remind me" button to create a local notification to the user and remind them about the current session.

Include FreshFile in the app to check for newer versions of the data file

FreshFile is already coded but is still in Swift 1.1 - port it to 1.2 and include it in the app.

Speaker cell: Move and enlarge Favorite button

Move the toggle favorites button (according to the designer-made speaker cell design) and enlarge the tappable area so it's easier to tap

Show track names, descriptions, maps

Add list of the tracks and their info in More. Add "Tracks" menu item - in the next screen show a list of their names and descriptions (if any). Add a map button for tracks that have a map image - show the image in a preview popup.

Session details: open speaker URL in the app

Session details: open speaker URL in the app - use the web view controller to show the speaker's web site and keep the user in the app

Session details: show start time

Add a label to show the start time of a session in the Session details screen

Improve layout: Sessions list

Right now I just laid down the labels in a cell. Need a designer to beautify the cells

self sizing cells

sometimes the bottom of the session name and/or session description gets cut off few pixels, haven't seen this on iOS8 while testing - I can see it happen on iOS9

blank the image of the speaker cell when about to re-use

blank the image of the speaker cell when about to re-use

Speaker details: Tweets table doesn't scroll to bottom

Looks like there are more cells available at the bottom of the table - if you pull the cells up you will see more show up

chatter - "new" button

add a bar button to open twitter's write message dialogue and post a message

Show the subtitle of the event

Find where to show the event subtitle in the app.

back from session details resets the day selection

choose 3rd day of conf, select a session, then hit Back from the session details screen - it brings you back to the list of sessions of the first day of the conf