Biography

Chris Price is a professor of Computer Science at Aberystwyth University and the main organizer of the iOSDevUK conference, one of the UK’s leading events for iOS developers.

With a passion for education and technology, Chris has been instrumental in fostering a vibrant developer community through the conference, which brings together experts and enthusiasts to share knowledge and innovation in iOS development.

His work at the university focuses on advancing software engineering and programming education, making him a key figure in both academia and the tech industry.

Chris has released a number of apps on iOS and Android.

Talk: When Content is King

This talk will explore what can be done to make the creation of content-rich apps as painless and error free as possible.

Discussions of app cost mostly focus on the features the app needs - complexity and number of screens, networking, data persistence, and so on. And yet for some apps, all of these issues are dwarfed by the effort of generating the app's content.

The talk will draw on a decade of experience in building and maintaining content rich apps, where in some cases, producing the content has been around 80% of the effort, despite several app rebuilds with different technologies. This talk will help you lighten the load of content creation, and lead you to treat it with the same disciplined approach you have for software development.