LivePix

I was brought on board the LivePix project to replace the outgoing developer. LivePix is a social photo sharing app that stresses both privacy and easy invitations.

I had to re-design the entire Contacts/Invitation scheme since the existing one was inadequate. Then I found I had two diverged source code bases, one for iPad and one for iPhone. I combined the two bases and then enabled rotation and added support for the 4″ iPhones.

Next up was to implement the new Contacts/Invitation scheme. I noticed that performance was slow, so I hooked a software packet sniffer to my iPhone and discovered that the existing app was not hosted on an Amazon EC2 instance but rather was hosted on the original developer’s personal machine! Around the same time I recruited and hired a PHP coder to take over the server side. She got it all working on an EC2 instance.

Technologies used include:

• Client / Server network communication
• XML parsing
• Reflection
• Contact list parsing
• Container ViewControllers
• Facebook login

The original version is currently available in the iTunes App Store but none of my code is there yet. The new version is still in development, and has not yet been released.