Case Study In-Flight Infotainment and e-Shopping App
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Client
Requirement
Client caters to a VVIP customer base that highly emphasizes on exclusivity, privacy and quality. With this in mind, client required an application that would transform the way his consumers shop, while also enriching their travel experience. He expected an iPad application that would serve his consumers with shopping catalogues, from topmost brands and merchants, and entertainment magazines. Client expected an application that: •
Offers a rich user interface for impeccable user experience
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Provides animations that would add to the browsing pleasure
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Provides comprehensive catalogue
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Is capable of handling large graphics without impacting system’s performance.
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Acts as a shopping cart allowing users to buy immediately through products shown in the catalogue immediately through an iPad.
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Integrates easy, yet highly secured payment method
Incorporating all that the client required, we built and application that could handle high resolution. The application is scalable and robust.
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Project
Challenges
Team faced the following challenges: •
Developing the promenade view, which needs to show 2 vertical carousels i.e. Cover flows having unique views, but with mirror orientation.
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Maintaining uninterrupted downloading of large PDF files, with rich UI contents, and storing it in the document directory.
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Maintaining all the details of the activity done and data information filled by users, locally into the database.
Technologies Used Xcode is an tool also called as IDE used to develop iOS and Mac applications. It is an main component of Xcode toolset. It groups most of the tool you need to develop software in a streamlined and interactive user interface. Storyboarding enables you to use Interface Builder to specify not only all the screens in your application, but the transitions between them and the controls used to trigger the transitions.
Xcode 4.2.1
Storyboard Sqlite Framework
This framework allows developers to quickly create and use a local SQLITE within iPhone, iPad, iPod devices.
iOS sdk 5.0
iOS is a software development kit used to develop iPhone, iPad applications specific to OS versions as required by the user.
Core Data Framework
The Core Data framework provides generalized and automated solutions to common tasks associated with object life-cycle and object graph management, including persistence.
Manpower Project Leader
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Developers
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Quality Assurance Testers
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Planning The following development approach was adopted to equip the site with numerous features and functionality mentioned before: • Introduces high level of server and data fetching technology. •
Research and analysis has been scheduled to get the actual level of output of data, which are in a form of different verticals and business logics.
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Development – High Level Coding Standards has been followed for managing backup data volume, simultaneously synchronization with server for recent updates.
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Syncing existing and newly available data for backup with our database required specific attention. This helped in result generation.
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The User Interface Layer, which forms the Graphical User Interface of the website
Development Highlights This application for iPad was built around objective C and SQLite framework. The design for each screen is implemented using the storyboard framework, which is newly integrated Apple’s iOS 5.0. Almost all the modules were developed using foundation, core graphics and UIKIT frameworks. All User Interface components were placed in view controllers using storyboard. All the view controllers were linked with controller files project along with the outlets, actions of the UI element. SQLITE framework was used to maintain and store all the details locally. The site was developed and fully functional within a span of 3 months.
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