BookJane is a streamlined app for professional health care & service workers. Originally developed for internal use, now deployed at hospitals, retirement homes, long term care, and in-home care agencies throughout North America to fill a shift in seconds with real-time access pool of qualified healthcare employees. Converted the existing iOS solution to a white-label […]
Lyft Direct by Payfare
Lyft and Payfare joined together to design a loyalty program and debit card for Lyft drivers. The app manages driver’s earnings on-the-go from a single, easy-to-use place. Earning are integrated with a secure, online bank account in real-time after every ride. Led the iOS app development and mobile architecture to deliver a solid experience. The app has […]
Jiffy on Demand for iOS
Jiffy on Demand is a startup known as the Uber of home maintenance. The app makes home maintenance easy, building cutting edge technology to connect homeowners to the best home maintenance professionals instantly. Led the iOS app development and mobile architecture to deliver a 5-star experience. The app has many features, like maps, custom chat messaging, […]
Health Data and Mobile Connectivity
Integrated Bluetooth connectivity with a proprietary heart rate monitoring device. This involved background tasks and storing millions of heart rates per user using Protocol Buffer compression and real-time syncing to the cloud. Populated iOS and Android charts using downsampling algorithms, multi-threading, and caching mechanisms. Enforced data privacy and security measures for safeguarding medical information.
Basem Emara Blog App
An open-source project for iOS developers and geeks. Written in Swift and features include offline capabilities, advanced search, caching, and more. The code can be downloaded at the repository.
SwiftyPress
An open source iOS framework for WordPress integration using REST/JSON and a custom WordPress plugin. This has been used by several 3rd party consumers to build their own app.
ZamzamKit
A Swift package for rapid development using a collection of micro extensions for Standard Library, Foundation, and more. Includes documentation and unit tests. Cross-platform targets for macOS, iOS, watchOS, tvOS, and iPadOS and were used across various apps for providing a central and extensible API.
Percentage-based Spacing Using Autolayout and Storyboard
Due to the many screen sizes in the mobile world, staying relative to screen size is crucial. Hard-coding margins and sizes based on points can be short-sighted. In this post, we will subclass NSLayoutConstraint to achieve percentage-based margins.
What’s New in iOS 10 and Beyond
It is clear from this year’s WWDC that Apple envisions a new era beyond the traditional apps-in-a-grid-on-your-home-screen model. iOS 10 is more of a revolutionary iteration to the Apple ecosystem and vision. There were many initiatives uncovered that gives us clues to the future of Apple.
Yet Another Podcast #137 – Apple Watch
In this podcast, I speak to world-renown, Jesse Liberty, about developing on the Apple Watch platform and Swift.