Is Tripcase No Lnoger Available for Sumsung Gear? UPDATED
Is Tripcase No Lnoger Available for Sumsung Gear?
Case Study: TripCase S3 App
A long time ago, in a start-upwardly non then far away I was stoked to have the opportunity to help the Sabre TripCase team build out their new TripCase smart watch app for the Samsung S3 lookout man.
So, naturally, after geeking out about getting to be the "chosen i" to not only build a smart picket app but to convert an already amazingly successful app into a smaller and more compact version too? 👍
TripCase
For those of y'all who are unfamiliar with TC — it'south an award winning travel management app that organizes all the info you could perchance demand in order to set you for traveling (flight, hotel, rental, lodging, meetings, etc.). If you lot don't already employ it, I highly recommend it.
The Problem
We had a successful mobile & web app that needed to exist minimized and converted into the Samsung & Android smart watch versions.
I worked along a very talented (now at Google) designer Roque Silva, who made the beautiful conversion of the electric current app into the smart watch versions for both the Samsung & Android platforms. Before there were designs though, we would get together for the bulk of the day going over IA & wire-framing to assistance point the states in a successful direction.
The biggest challenge with this process was not just making things look pretty in a new fashion, it was needing to larn & utilize gesture patterns that are mutual for both sentry versions. For example, the S3 had a new feature of a rotating dial around the screen for users to navigate views with which was absent-minded from all Android related devices. Additionally, Android watches have a pattern of giving information in a certain layout (ringlet down or swipe into the view left/correct). In one case once again, this design was different in Samsung Os watches (coil down or tap into view).
How nosotros solved this problem was by getting our easily on the S3 itself and using other successful S3 specific watch apps (like Nike, etc.). After getting the feel of where Samsung was trying to get and how they wanted the user to use this new watch, we had a good starting point for our wire-framing which would and so feed the designs.
The REAL Problem
Let'due south become a piffling more authentic and awkward…the Samsung S3 used their official OS named "Tizen" (why practice they demand their own OS? Who knows?). The good news, it is a web-supporting platform which allowed me to accept the opportunity to build this app. The bad news, it was not fully released during this process and updated the SDK you were forced to use multiple times with massive breaking changes (specific to our app).
Can you lot guess what happened in consequence of that? I'll tell yous — me wasting my time and having to rebuild the app multiple versions. Needless to say, it put a pretty bad taste in my rima oris and I cannot look at Samsung software the aforementioned again. 😭
The Solution
Alas, let'south talk nigh the positive stuff and end on a good note. Although re-builds are exhausting and only put you in technical debt, it allowed me the opportunity to learn more than well-nigh the Components built into and being added to the OS system. I mean, dev-ing out an app for Tizen now might be awesome? …I think they even support React now?
Anyways, I wound up having to use a at present pretty primitive tech stack of just HTML, SCSS, JQuery, and Gulp to handle all the tasks. For unit testing, I just used Mocha/Chai. Outside of that, there was really nothing special about it.
On the OS technical side, similar to iOS/Android, Tizen came with certain Components that we needed to utilise to follow Samsung design patterns (the principal view in Fig.ii above independent what was called a "PageIndicator").
Determination
Even though this turned out to be a pretty chaotic project due to the Tizen OS, it was always a blast working with Roque and the TripCase team to deliver something that people who own the S3 watch tin can employ to help do good and make their life easier. That'southward my ultimate goal in this industry, to make beautiful and amazing apps that help make people's lives easier. If I (and nosotros) are not doing that — we're failing.
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Is Tripcase No Lnoger Available for Sumsung Gear? UPDATED
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