We’ve developed a number of mobile applications for iPhone and Android platforms, for example:

• Food Hygiene iPhone application - geo-location (“What businesses are nearby?”), augmented reality (pointing the phone at a premise, and have it’s information appear onscreen) and mobile search (“Find me cafe businesses in Redditch, ordered by rating”).
• Food Hygiene Android application (port of the iPhone variant)
• iPhone applications for small businesses — providing a recipe list, cooking calculator – utilising alarms and notifications.
• Ultra-mobile cooking application (I’m Watch).
• Android Car delivery application – allowing mobile employees to receive, create and work on jobs. One interesting aspect about this application is that it is designed to be functional even if no network reception is available through a sophisticated event queuing and notification system.

In terms of functionality:

• Augmented Reality — we’ve utilised augmented reality with overlaid text, allowing the user to point their phone at a premise and see the appropriate food hygiene rating.
• Shopping cart support — with the Paypal API allowing the user to purchase products via the application.
• Network detection – to change how an application behaves if there is no wifi/cellular coverage
• GPS Detection – if no location information can be found, change the application’s behaviour
• Background service support — handling push notifications, queuing jobs and updates to be sent to a central server, or just sounding an alarm when a set time has passed.
• Push notification support — allowing the user (or application) to be notified remotely without the requirement for the application to poll a server.
• Integrated alarm/alert notifications — to notify the user when a predefined event has occurred.
• Geo-location — eg. “find my nearest…”
• Social Media Integration — allowing the user to link data on the application into their social network.
• Feedback Reporting — helping users provide feedback to the appropriate app store.
• Utilising back-end (remote) APIs like REST — for data retrieval.
• Local data storage — using the devices local data store to aid performance and structured data retrieval.

Our applications tend to be based either upon the PhoneGap framework, or natively. Which approach we chose will depend on the project’s requirements – for example, PhoneGap aids cross platform support (Apple iOS, Android, BlackBerry Webworks) and tends to result in a shorter build time – while writing an app natively will normally result in snappier performance and allow for more advanced hardware integration. Sometimes a hybrid approach is possible.

Please contact us for further information.