Apps
A selection of my current iOS related work. This list is not complete; some work is NDA’ed, in progress or just not yet listed. If you are interested in more of my work, just mail me.
Furthermore, i am involved in some other apps as a technical expert and/or interface flow specialist. I am also available for fixing apps that crash or have memory issues.
3MobileTV
MobileTV Client with Realtime-EPG for HUTCHISON Drei. Is currently in Review. More Apps for Hutchison are on the way.
Okura
Time/Facility Tracking App, populated via Hockey, not yet in the AppStore. Communicates via SOAP to a Sharepoint server.
Citybikes
Citybikes is a small navigation app for the “Citybike” service of vienna. Created with my university college Alexander Leutgöb, with friendly support from gewista.
Points of interests:
- Custom Map-Overlays that show location state
- GPS Implementation that searches the nearest station, handing all the quirks that the Framework has (like sending wrong locations sometimes…)
- Data is fetched via XML and locally saved in a SQLite database (Core Data)
- It’s for iOS 3.1.3 upwards, using Local Push Notifications to display a warning when your free one-hour-time is about to expire (This is a new feature of iOS4)
voestalpine Reader
A corporate news reader for the international voestalpine AG, done in corporation with vi knallgrau. Fetches latest news from Twitter, Facebook, Digg and various RSS feeds, merges them into one timeline, filters out dupes and displays them in a nice way. The app is available world wide but only in german.
Points of interest:
- Dupe-Filtering and parsing of Twitter, Facebook, Digg and RSS.
- Map-Integration with links to custom news/events
- ShareKit-Integration (share on Twitter/Facebook)
- bit.ly integration for short twitter urls
- TwitPic defacing, get image from webservice
- Custom News-Loading for Innovation-RSS feed with RESTful API
- Save Favorites using local database
- Offline cache when connection not available
- Stock data fetching & integration (via Yahoo! Finance)
- Save contact to Address Book via single button (“Kontakt”)
- Uses and extends three20 framework from facebook
- Optimized for iOS4 and Retina Display
PlanetRomeo
Social networking platform for meeting & dating, like Facebook but for guys only.
Points of interest:
- Fetched data via own designed rest api
- Reimplemented SMS messaging app with message bar & chat bubbles
- Reimplemented Photos.app for remote images (to feel more native)
- Reimplemented Pincode protection for data savety
- In App Settings
- Huge Core Data Relationship with versuioning
- Multiple Accounts
- Swipe Menu for chat bubbles
- Awesome scrolling performance due to custom drawn cells
- Network detection + different strategies for data fetching depending on cell tower/utms/wifi
- Vibration + Sound for new messages
- Shake to reload & Pull to reload
- Fully localized in german, english, italian
- Full landscape support
- Extensive usage of three20
- Custom Webbrowser
- Much more
