Instayacht iOS App
Airbnb meets yachts!
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Released: 2017
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The Instayacht iOS application was developed to facilitate travelers to meet boat owners in an Airbnb-like fashion. The application was intended for both boat owners and passengers.
The application had the following features:
- Registration via Facebook APIs
- Personalized push notifications for ride updates, offers
- Digital payments via the Paypal SDK
- Asynchronous networking
To cope with the UI complexity, I used Texture (formerly known as AsyncDisplayKit) to create a React-like programming model.
8 months with Texture (a.k.a. AsyncDisplayKit)
I have to admit that I love React & React Native. I began using React in 2014,and React Native in 2016. I loved RN not because of its cross-platformmechanics, but for its pragmatic approach when designing user interfaces and itsability to componentize a screen. A component can have its own state,…
The company is now defunct, so the application is not on the App Store anymore.
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