Case Study : PANIC !! 
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The Project
The client was an individual who wanted an iPhone app that provides a security blanket to the user. The aim was to leverage the best of iOS technology and mix it with Social media to develop an iPhone app that allows the user’s location to be posted onto Facebook and Twitter. The core concept of the app revolves around sending an SMS to 5 predefined contacts notifying them about the user’s locations at any given point of time. Another key aspect of this app involves Facebook and Twitter being pinged with the location of the user, with respect to latitude and longitude at pre-defined intervals. The client wanted to offer users an app that ensures that their friends or security provider know about their location at all times. So help is always at hand.
- iPhone :
The Challenges
- Designing a highly functional app whose design ensures immediate and convenient usability; the custom design needed to facilitate an immediate response.
- Integrating GPS technology to pinpoint the physical location of the user
- Implementing the client’s requirement of a one click PANIC button that sends immediate location updates to the contacts, as well as, to the Facebook Wall and also through Tweets
- Integrating Twitter and Facebook API, and working within their limitations, yet ensuring that their potential is leveraged optimally
- Ensuring single user registration to guarantee exclusivity of the iPhone app user so that there is no confusion as to the location
The Solution
We have ensured that the overall design of the iPhone app with all its specifications ensures quick and effective usage, and brings to life the concept of the client in its entirety. The integration of GPS technology with efficient coding ensures that the app is able to freeze on the user’s current location and at the same time ensures that the location is sent to the 5 predetermined contacts at predefined intervals. We also guaranteed the seamless integration of Facebook and Twitter API.
Technical Details
For iPhone app development we have used the following technologies
- iOS 5
- xCode
- Cocoa Framework
- Objective C
- XML Parsing
- SQLite database
- Facebook and Twitter API
