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Immediately after the first week of work I had a good sense that the UPTech team would be a good partner for us. They communicated regularly through Slack and various channels and most importantly asked thoughtful questions that clearly indicated that they had reviewed and understood the project but more importantly were the types of developers that thought beyond the task. ... Really though, its by far the best android development and non US based I’ve ever had… and I’ve been doing tech for 20+ years. [see more...]
Hunter Scarborough
Founder, Voter
We got the android version out, it works well and looks good, it was on tibe pme, and it was within budget. I also appreciate you guys going above and beyond by discovering bugs in the iOS code and fixing those.
You guys accomplished the goals we set, and you did it quickly. Pleasure working with you and looking forward to continuing doing so. [see more...]
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Owner, Two Scoops Studio
UPTech is transparent, organized, and extremely dedicated to the client. They go above and beyond for me and for whatever I need for my clients. They have been referred multiple times. [see more...]
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From the first interaction we knew that they we had found a great team that we could build a lasting working relationship with. We wanted to work with them for their flexibility, depth of experience including design, and their clear passion for their work, illustrated by their attention to detail.
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CEO, Belam Consulting
Guys - you know I love you and you’re my best dev team - but please never commit commented code. I do this myself too but I think if client sees again they will fire us. [see more...]
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It’s like online dating, for politics! Voter analyzes mountains of data, including public stances, voting records, speeches, and more, to make sure your matches are accurate.
Voter allows users to answer a few simple questions and find out which politicians truly have their best interests at heart, and have a track record to back it up.
Client Requirements
Client already had a live iOS application and wanted to cover Android segment as well.
Main requirements were:
Develop an Android application with matching functionality to the iOS one.
Apply Android Material guidelines.
Create a beautiful, Tinder-like animation for question cards.
Create a chat screen where users are able to share their political views.
Engineering Challenges
Main challenge for our team was to match the iOS app in animation quality and performance. Voter app has a Tinder-like swipeable cards and we decided to implement it from scratch without using third-party libraries to match exact client requirements. That did challenge our skills at software design and made us more aware of advantages and disadvantages of various data structures we learned back in the university. After multiple iterations and testing different approaches to implementation, we've managed to achieve an elegant flexible solution that fits requirements perfectly.
We also challenged ourselves to implement application in a clean, re-usable and testable way. For that, we choose MVP architecture. MVP is highly recommended pattern for Android development as it greatly simplifies the code and makes it more modular.
In addition to that, we decided to use Kotlin &apm; Anko, brand new technologies from JetBrains. In the end, transition to Kotlin programming language was very beneficial to both our team and the client. On our side, we enjoyed functional-style programming and ease of development; client, on other hand, published a fully functional and robust application before the deadline.
In addition to mastering animations on Android platform, Voter project taught us to make full use of architecture patterns and best practices and in the field. Application is 100% written in Kotlin, which is a great innovation for us. We believe that trying new technologies and constantly innovating is the key to great software development.
What client says about us:
"We wanted to go with a team that was somewhat local, did quality work, and was within our budget (obviously). Even though your team is abroad, it was great having Shervin as a local contact. Shervin also happened to follow up with us at just the right time, when we were in a crunch to find a good developer quickly. On top of that, he sent me some of your previous work, which was better quality than many of the other dev shops we talked with. He was also willing to work with us on the price to make sure it was within our budget. All in all, it has been a great experience working with you guys."
Hunter Scarborough
and..
"We got the android version out, it works well and looks good, it was on time, and it was within budget. I also appreciate you guys going above and beyond by discovering bugs in the iOS code and fixing those.
You guys accomplished the goals we set, and you did it quickly. Pleasure working with you and looking forward to continuing doing so." - says Hunter Scarborough.
Check out the full interview with Hunter on Clutch.
We consume most of the information through our eyes. Often, we also want to listen to good music, audiobooks, TED Talks, etc. However, sometimes it's not that easy to find great content for your favourite topic. You might get lost between podcasts and ads they're full of. There is an overload of content on the internet, and our client approach is to find the very best and bring that to mobile audience in audio format.
Our client curated the best audio content packs and asked us to bundle them into amazing mobile app experiences.
Client Requirements
Create an app with typical audio player features like playing content, navigating between tracks, playing audio when the app is in background.
The app should also work offline.
Stream content from anywhere or save for offline listening.
Easy to use In App Purchase options.
Extend existing iOS app with new features.
Design was provided by the client.
Engineering Challenges
Client had a bunch of content packs, and already published iOS app. Client wanted to take the same approach as with previous iOS version - create one template project, that could be duplicated and customised. The solution should be simple, and so that even non-technical person could create customised apps for new content packs.
Researching different options, we've selected to use gradle product flavours, added template flavours and detailed guide for creating customised apps, which solved clients needs gracefully.
Audiojoy is a great project that gave us an opportunity to do a lot of research, challenged us with non-trivial task, enhanced our expertise in Android build system and audio playing features. It's a great delight seeing how Audiojoy apps, centered around self improvement, personal growth and inspiration, help make this world a better place to live.
What client says about us:
"Immediately after the first week of work I had a good sense that the UPTech team would be a good partner for us. They communicated regularly through Slack and various channels and most importantly asked thoughtful questions that clearly indicated that they had reviewed and understood the project but more importantly were the types of developers that thought beyond the task. This is one of the most important aspects of programming in my experience. Most programmers take a task for face value. I ask for a red button here and they put a red button there. But sometimes that red button might conflict with another feature or function, or maybe it just looks bad. Maybe it doesn’t crash, but causes some other user experience to break down. This is thinking beyond the task and the UPTech team does this."
Jeff Solomon
and..
"Really though, its by far the best android development and non US based I’ve ever had… and I’ve been doing tech for 20+ years." - says Jeff Solomon.
YoShirt is the app for creating one-of-a-kind apparel and accessories. Simply snap it, customise it, and wear it.
Got a cool idea for a shirt or phone case? Create it whenever, wherever with YoShirt. Get creative with photos, stickers and patterns. It's super easy to use, and the possibilities are endless. Add stickers, backgrounds, your cool photos, text and colors. Works offline, automatically saves, continue your designs when you feel creative.
User friendly checkout flow to securely purchase the item you just designed, pay with credit card or Android Pay.
Our client asked us to create an application that will resolve their needs.
Client Requirements
Create an app with a typical “store” features :
View store items
Select sizes.
Add to cart.
Enter shipping info.
Checkout (with credit card and Android Pay)
But that’s not all, YoShirt is unique for allowing users design the shirt themselves, thus client also asked to implement custom photo editing features:
When store functionality is pretty much common across apps, it’s photo editor features are unique. There were a couple of challenges, we faced engineering the photo editing features for YoShirt.
First - it’s Android devices fragmentation. Each device has it’s own configurations, screen sizes and screen resolutions, etc. We had to design the app in a what that no matter on which device user has created the design, it would look exactly the same on all other devices and on the server.
Second - quality. In order to print good shirt, you need to provide high-resolution images. However, most devices cannot work with such images, thus we needed to use image thumbnails when designing, and original high resolution images for printing actual shirts. At the same time we had to make sure that design created with thumbnails matches exactly its full-resolution versions.
Third - efficiency and responsiveness. Working with all these have images is tough. App should handle them properly, don’t waste phone memory when not necessary, and at the same time be fast and responsive.
Fourth - saving design snapshot. Client wanted users to be able to continue editing their designs whenever they wanted, thus we the app should be able to save and later restore the design state. Together with the third point, it became really a challenge. Being effective - means you allow user to clear as much memory as they want. Thus once saved images in cache might not be there in a week or so. We had to deal with concurrent downloading / saving / cropping / scaling of 20+ images at the same time. And were able to handle them gracefully.
Fifth - international team. On this project we’ve been working together with our colleagues from Minsk, Belarus. They’ve provided all the app design and helped us with Android app as well. Luckily, efficient and regular communication is a common practice in our team, and this again helped us effectively resolve all issues and deliver the product in the shortest possible deadlines.
Solution
It took us multiple iterations to design elegant solution, that at the end appeared to be rather easy to implement. Using modern reactive programming approaches, we were able to handle all the engineering challenges. Lot’s of math, geometry and matrix multiplications were involved, we felt like scientists developing the app)) We used such technologies as MVP architecture, RxJava/RxAndroid, Dagger 2, Retrofit, CardIO, jUnit/espresso/mockito (unit/instrumentation testing). And of course we didn’t forget about great UI and smooth user experience. We’ve been able to successfully deliver the app, that met all the client requirements.
YoShirt is a big and challenging project that gave us an opportunity to do a lot of research, enhanced our expertise in image manipulation and processing, concurrency, image caching, reminded us about all the math we’ve studied in the university)). It’s a pleasure seeing how people dreams come true with elegant YoShirt apps.
Visit #YoShirt website or download #YoShirt app on Google Play (available only in US and Canada).
Voter Chatbot
UPTech created chatbot version of the Voter mobile app we have been working on as an experiment, without prior experience in this domain.
Few words about the mobile app
Voter is a matchmaking for politics. Hunter Scarborough (CEO at Voter) is trying to educate people in the US, especially younger generation about politics and make the elections (presidential, senator, district) a conscious decision. It allows users to answer a few simple questions and find out which politicians truly match their views and have their best interests at heart.
This sounded like a perfect use case for a chatbot: a chatbot would ask user few questions in a form of a dialog and then give advice for the upcoming elections both in your area and in the US.
Client Requirements
There were no client requirements per se. This project started as an experiment and grew into a product after multiple iterations and improvements, with the client deeply involved in the process.
Challenges
The most difficult part of creating a chatbot is thinking of all the ways a user would interact with a chatbot. Chatbots are the new trend in IT, and there are only very basic UX guidelines / best practices, so we used our judgment to create both very simple to use and human-like user experience. Integrating full-fledged AI into the chatbot seemed like a too complex solution for us. Simplest thing often is the best, so we stuck to basic dialogs via buttons and yes-no questions. Although you cannot have sophisticated conversations with Voter Chatbot, it get’s the job done!
Things learned:
Designing dialogs is most important aspect of creating a chatbot.
Technical part of creating a chatbot is not that hard when you use the right approach.
Chatbots can be a major improvement to some businesses. You can either provide your services via the chatbot directly, which means that users do not have to install the application or, alternatively, use chatbot to show a demo of application features and get more userbase (as in the case of Voter).
Although the first chatbot is far from being perfect, we gained a lot of knowledge in the process of creating it. Now we apply that knowledge in creating new chatbot, which will allow users to order food in some cafes over LA, and much much more.
With Voter, we helped people make their choice for the US presidential elections and get more knowledge about politics in general.
What client says about us:
"We wanted to go with a team that was somewhat local, did quality work, and was within our budget (obviously). Even though your team is abroad, it was great having Shervin as a local contact. Shervin also happened to follow up with us at just the right time, when we were in a crunch to find a good developer quickly. On top of that, he sent me some of your previous work, which was better quality than many of the other dev shops we talked with. He was also willing to work with us on the price to make sure it was within our budget. All in all, it has been a great experience working with you guys."
Hunter Scarborough
and..
"We got the android version out, it works well and looks good, it was on time, and it was within budget. I also appreciate you guys going above and beyond by discovering bugs in the iOS code and fixing those.
You guys accomplished the goals we set, and you did it quickly. Pleasure working with you and looking forward to continuing doing so." - says Hunter Scarborough.
Check out the full interview with Hunter on Clutch.
Visit Voter.xyz to find the perfect candidate, in every election. Talk to Voter Chatbot in Facebook Messenger.
Geeking is the #1 mobile app for Roleplay & Chat. From Anime to Vampire. Cosplay to Comics. Whatever your passion is, you can find people that like what you like on Geeking.
People on this app are making new friends, sharing experiences, telling stories, role-playing, asking questions, flirting, finding love and just being themselves.
Client Requirements
Client came to us with already working Android app. However, the app still needed a lot of work. The app accumulated quite a lot of tech debt, libraries, build tools needed to be updated. And of course new features were coming. Among the requirements that client requested were:
Update integration with ad networks.
Fix existing bugs.
Improve performance.
We were eager to start over with such a big and challenging project, with such an active and great community of “geeks”.
Engineering Challenges
The existing codebase was overwhelming. The application has already been developed for several years. It’s always a challenge - to start over an existing code base, and continue developing the app. We’ve been able to understand key concepts of existing application (which were not trivial at all), and and continue developing new features without breaking the existing functionality. Moreover, we were able to successfully integrate modern tools and approaches, such as Retrofit, RxJava, Kotlin, MVP architecture. Client was very pleased we could successfully go on without rewriting existing codebase.
Another challenge was native ad networks integration. Client had integrated a set of ad networks, each of which had it’s own approach to implementation. We were challenged to study each of the individual ad SDKs approaches, understand client requirements, design a way to integrate all of them together and plus suggest a few improvements to this systems (thanks to our expertise in Android platform features).
Geeking project mastered our ability to understand existing codebase and to continue supporting it, greatly enhanced our expertise in native ad networks integration, allowed us do a lot of research, challenged us with non-trivial task. So grateful to see how our app helped such an active community to share ideas, make friends and just have fun.
What client says about us:
"We had an initial Skype with Andriy and his team and were initially concerned given their suggestion to overhaul major areas of the app. We knew we had accumulated a lot of technical debt but we’ve also seen this play out dozens of times before. New developers, hate old code, want to re-write it. We weren’t comfortable with that and Andriy understood right away. Immediately after the first week of work I had a good sense that the UPTech team would be a good partner for us. They communicated regularly through Slack and various channels and most importantly asked thoughtful questions that clearly indicated that they had reviewed and understood the project but more importantly were the types of developers that thought beyond the task. This is one of the most important aspects of programming in my experience. Most programmers take a task for face value. I ask for a red button here and they put a red button there. But sometimes that red button might conflict with another feature or function, or maybe it just looks bad. Maybe it doesn’t crash, but causes some other user experience to break down. This is thinking beyond the task and the Uptech team does this. It’s huge for us because it doesn’t put the burden of thinking through the entire code base every time we ask for something. They do the work to think about how one thing might impact another and frequently come back with suggestions about how to achieve the same goal, but without messing something else up — or better yet, how we might do it all together better in general."
Jeff Solomon
and..
"We have had some significant improvements to our product. First, UPTech team worked hard to understand our advertising stack, which is utterly confusing to even us. They made incremental change after another and we saw ad revenue increase. This is real and tangible value. We have more work to do here, but it’s way better. The other thing is that they seem very focused on reducing crashes and negative feedback from users. Frequently they read the reviews on Android and iTunes to find out what is not working and they crush bugs like it’s nobody’s business." - says Jeff Solomon.
Visit Geeking website or download Android App on Google Play to talk about your interests -- from games to comics, school, family, romance, whatever.
