sjangity / peerflight-ios

App store approved iOS + Objective-C mobile client for peerflight with backend running on LAMP-stack & VPS

peerflight-ios

The Objective

Peerflight started as a webapp proof-of-concept on a custom PHP framework that I built.

It later supported a true, native ios client application with full-sync data. The purpose of the app was to help travelers find companions for an otherwise boring or long flight. Ignoring privacy issues aside (not that big a deal back then!), this was a brilliant concept. :-) By no means was there heavy market research or needfinding done as it was nothing more than a blip in the ideation phase and was more tech-heavy. The app allowed me to explore the complexities of native mobile integration within an existing web application.

This was also during the days (2014ish) when people didn't know whether to write the MOBILE first or WEB first or something in between.

In hindsight, I think peerflight was drawn from the heavy painpoints in my days at Zynga where writing parity and conformity between client-functionality and server-functionality was only the start of the problems as mobile usage and the app-economy increased 10x overnight. This was of course in the early days before PWA and before Javascript became popular both on client and server.

Flow Overview

Challenges

Client-server data sync

View layout

Core Data object graph management

Block-based network communication

Questions / Feedback

Feel free to reach out to me at sandeep @ sandeepjangity.co