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iOS/Android Offline Maps App Praised by National Geographic

iOS/Android Offline Maps App Praised by National Geographic

Industry
Travel & Hospitality
Technologies
iOS, Android, Mobile, React Native, C/C++

Customer

The Customer is a North American product company that offers digital cartography solutions.

Challenge

One of the Customer’s product is an iOS/Android app that offers custom offline maps for various specific audiences, such as cyclists, tourists and hikers. Upon the initial app release, the Customer didn’t have enough in-house mobile development and project management resources to continuously evolve the application.

Solution

The Customer’s initial request was for Android and iOS app development resources. Yet, after learning about ScienceSoft’s large talent pool, the Customer scaled the team request up. ScienceSoft shared the CVs for the requested positions and arranged the interviews with the candidates within just 3 days.

As a result, the Customer hired:

  • a project manager (for planning and overseeing the tasks as well as communicating with all stakeholders)
  • a business analyst
  • two Android developers
  • two iOS developers
  • a React Native developer (for evolving the cross-platform ‘Store’ module reused in the two app versions)
  • a C++ engineer (for supporting the custom algorithms used to import/export the map data from/to the servers).

All design, QA, and back-end tasks were to be performed by the Customer’s in-house employees.

ScienceSoft’s team of 8 experts have quickly adapted to the Customer’s Kanban processes and have diligently followed the evolution schedule with high-quality monthly releases for over 2 years so far. During this time, they have optimized and evolved such features as:

  • Real-time GPS location (available offline).
  • On-demand GPS track recording.
  • Integration of newly appearing maps into the app (and their publication to the map store).
  • Time and distance estimation.
  • Custom notes and photos linked to specific locations.
  • Custom topography sign creation.
  • Support of various formats (KML, CSV, GPX).

Results

While ScienceSoft’s 8 experts continue evolving the Customer’s mobile products, the quality of the iOS and Android apps has been acknowledged by multiple brands, including National Geographic, The New York Times, and TIME.

Technologies and Tools

iOS: Swift, Objective-C, Objective-C++, MVVM-C Architecture pattern, Auto Layout (PureLayout), Combine, Core Data, CocoaPods, CMake, Jenkins (CI), Firebase (Crashlytics, Analytics, Config).

Android: Java, Kotlin, kotlinx.coroutines, Material Design Components, ConstraintLayout, RecyclerView-Selection, ShimmerLayout, Zxing, ORMLite, Junit, NDK, Djinni, Firebase (Crashlytics, Analytics, Config).

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