Building Mobile as a Platform-First Architecture
summary
Box rebuilds mobile from apps to reusable SDKs and platform components, releasing a Browse SDK and Share UI SDK in April and a Preview SDK (handles 100+ file types) on iOS with Android imminent, while serving 50k+ developers who make 4.5 billion API calls/month and publish ~1,600 apps. Engineering choices: avoid tight coupling between Browse, Preview and Job Manager by keeping explicit contracts, push folder sync into a job manager while previewing assets stays in the preview SDK, use convention-over-configuration for simple defaults, and ship one SDK used internally and externally.
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chapters (4)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Building Mobile as a PlatformFirst Architecture
- 6:25Learnings Challenges
- 14:07Convention Over Configuration
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