TechEd 2015 – Hana Cloud Platform + Twitter API Game – #TagYourSwag

What do you do with all of the swag that you collect at Tech Ed 2015? Why not turn it into a game?

The buzz at TechEd 2015 is all about Hana Cloud Platform. So we created a game just for the week that features Hana Cloud Platform, Twitter, and Fiori and shows how you can easily use the power of HCP to publish a cloud app featuring 3rd party APIs.

The game is pretty simple:

1. Snap pics of vendor swag.
2. Creatively post them to Twitter, using hashtags #SAPtd, #TagYourSwag and a category from above.
3. Cast votes by retweeting.
4. Check the leaderboard at: https://tagyourswag-b2b9d6cc8.dispatcher.us1.hana.ondemand.com/webapp/test/index.html#/SwagPile
5. Whoever has the most retweets, wins $100 in chips!

How is the app done?

• The architecture is really important. This pattern utilizing html5 apps with a routed destination to java could produce just about any type of app imaginable.

• Use the Twitter Java API to create a simple JSON / OData service in HCP. Bonus points for using https://olingo.apache.org/

• Route a new destination from your HTML5 app to your Java app.

• Use Web IDE & Fiori to create a simple HTML5 app based on the HCP web service.

And just like that, you have a fully functioning app running on the Hana Cloud Platform!