Content type: Handbook

This guide is intended to help you get started contributing to the mobile team at a contributor dayContributor Day Contributor Days are standalone days, frequently held before or after WordCamps but they can also happen at any time. They are events where people get together to work on various areas of https://make.wordpress.org/ There are many…

For each release in the iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads. and Android app projects, we follow roughly the same basic plan to ensure stable releases that are sufficiently tested. Scoping A few days (at most) to finalize what should be worked on, who’s working on what, and setting a target date.…

Both Android and iOS use the WordPress.com API to connect with your WordPress.com username and manage your hosted sites.  WordPress.com uses OAuth2 and requires a shared secret for application installs to be able to pair and authenticate.  In order to connect to a WordPress.com account you will need to register for an account over at…

The icons used in the mobile apps are extrated and adapted from two open sourceOpen Source Open Source denotes software for which the original source code is made freely available and may be redistributed and modified. Open Source **must be** delivered via a licensing model, see GPL. libraries – Genericons and Dashicons. The icons presented…

It’s important to have a good testing plan before releasing a new version of an app.  The apps are currently released to betaBeta A pre-release of software that is given out to a large group of users to trial under real conditions. Beta versions have gone through alpha testing in-house and are generally fairly close…

The source code for the mobile apps is stored in git repositories and GithubGitHub GitHub is a website that offers online implementation of git repositories that can easily be shared, copied and modified by other developers. Public repositories are free to host, private repositories require a paid subscription. GitHub introduced the concept of the ‘pull…

There are some tasks that are always the same, no matter which mobile platform you are developing for.  You should follow a good testing plan. You should use source control for keeping track of changes, and you should have good habits for describing changes in commit messages. These are just a few of the many…

GUI Elements & Tools iOS 7 GUI PSD by Teehan+Lax iPad GUI PSD by Teehan+Lax Windows Phone GUI PSD Windows Phone Design Downloads Android Design Downloads (Holo) Android DPI Calculator — good tool to calculate multiple graphics sizes for different densities Reference & Inspiration iOSiOS The operating system used on iPhones and iPads.: Apple’s Human…

For the sake of brand consistency, here are some handy references and examples for the correct uses of typography on the WordPress apps: Open Sans WordPress uses Open Sans as the default text face. Open Sans is a humanist sans serif typeface designed by Steve Matteson, Type Director of Ascender Corp. This version contains the…