Daniel James

Kid Power

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Kid Power was an app that I worked on while employed at Calorie Cloud. We built the app for UNICEF, and had partnerships with Target and Lucasfilm to tackle a two-pronged goal of getting kids active and curing global malnutrition. The app sync’d with a dedicated bluetooth fitness tracker to make getting active fun for kids while they earned points to unlock food packets that were sent to malnourished kids around the world. We later added an Apple Watch app and support for getting activity from the Health app so parents could participate with their kids.

The project was recognized as one of Time Magazine’s top 25 inventions of 2016, and was featured on Jimmy Fallon and Good Morning America.

• Languages: Swift 3, Objective-C
• Technology: Core Bluetooth, HealthKit, StoreKit

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BG GEM

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GEM was an app that I built while employed at BG Products. It was used by BG technicians to scan a vehicle’s computer to recommend services based on the operating state of the vehicle. It interfaced with the vehicle computer via a bluetooth OBDII connector.

• Language: Swift 2.1
• Technology: Core Bluetooth, Size Classes

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Evomail

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Evomail was the first app I did with a startup, and was my first contracting gig. It was a functional, beautiful alternative to the stock Mail app on iPad shortly before iOS 7 came out. I joined the team as iPhone support was added, and helped with bug fixes, iOS 7 modernization, and briefly on a 2.0 version that was iOS 7+ only, before the company shut down. This was remote, but based in Wichita.

• Language: Objective-C
• Technology: Core Data

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BG Products

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BG Products was an app that I built while employed at BG Products. It made use of maps to help users find a BG shop near them, provide information about services that could be performed on their vehicle, and had a calculator function to help them estimate how much they could save with a BG service by improving their fuel efficiency. This app supported iPhone and iPad via Size Classes, made use of Apple’s new (at the time) slide-over multitasking, and was localized in several languages.

• Language: Objective-C
• Technology: MapKit, Core Location, Size Classes, Localization

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Flixation

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Flixation was an app for which I performed some contract work. The app accessed photos and music stored on the device to make a slideshow exportable as a short video. I did quite a bit of clean up as the focus of its features changed, performed some bug fixes, updated the UI to be more iOS 7 friendly, and added support for exporting to social media. This one was fun because of its focus on media composition.

• Language: Objective-C

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Listical

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Listical was briefly featured as one of the “best new apps” in the Productivity category on the App Store.

Listical was my “Hello world” app. I taught myself iOS development by building a project that I wanted to see, but hadn’t ever found implemented quite right. At its core Listical was a shopping list app, but I added a few features that I thought would make it better for my scenario at the time: a husband and wife sharing digital shopping lists. To meet the needs of this scenario, I added real-time list syncing on top of CoreData using Simperium so that list items could be added or removed instantaneously from either my phone or my wife’s. I also added location-based notifications, so that you could be reminded about a list for a specific place, if you went into that place with something else on your mind.

• Language: Objective-C
• Technology: MapKit, Core Location, Core Data, StoreKit

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