{"id":1612,"date":"2017-08-31T16:49:09","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T11:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2017-09-15T14:51:48","modified_gmt":"2017-09-15T09:21:48","slug":"himash-tehan-using-wordpress-as-mobile-backend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/himash-tehan-using-wordpress-as-mobile-backend\/","title":{"rendered":"Himash Tehan will guide us on using WordPress as a mobile backend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our next speaker is <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/speaker\/himash-tehan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Himash Tehan<\/a>, a software developer from Colombo with over three years of experience designing and developing mobile apps. Himash&#8217;s topic is using\u00a0<strong>\u201cUsing WordPress as a Mobile Backend\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1710\" src=\"https:\/\/2017.colombo.wordcamp.org\/files\/2017\/08\/Himash-Tehan.png\" alt=\"Himash Tehan\" width=\"808\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/08\/Himash-Tehan.png 808w, https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/08\/Himash-Tehan-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/08\/Himash-Tehan-768x477.png 768w, https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/08\/Himash-Tehan-483x300.png 483w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 808px) 100vw, 808px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Himash has developed mobile apps using both native and hybrid mobile technologies for various domains i.e. airlines, sales and hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>WordPress is a great choice to use as the backend technology for a wide variety apps, be it a weather app, or a CRM app. You will be amazed at the functionalities that come out of the box\u00a0\u2014 like media management, user management and a sophisticated templating engine. What&#8217;s more, there are amazing plugins available in the public repository to choose from, and many of them are REST API enabled too!<\/p>\n<p>With Himash bringing his knowledge and experience on this subject to the event, you should be able to rapidly build your next mobile app powered by a WordPress backend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our next speaker is Himash Tehan, a software developer from Colombo with over three years of experience designing and developing mobile apps. Himash&#8217;s topic is using\u00a0\u201cUsing WordPress as a Mobile Backend\u201d. Himash has developed mobile apps using both native and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/himash-tehan-using-wordpress-as-mobile-backend\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"assistive-text\">Himash Tehan will guide us on using WordPress as a mobile backend<\/span>  <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13796322,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-speakers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/files\/2017\/08\/Himash-Tehan.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8keEA-q0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13796322"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colombo.wordcamp.org\/2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}