About

The Client is a European company and one of VolgoTechnologies long-term clients. The company is a global leader in image processing with an extensive portfolio of innovative technologies and patents. They offer products and solutions to enhance user experience in all aspects of digital imaging including processing, compression, storage, printing and display of digital images.

Challenge

The Client came up with an app concept and started searching for an iOS application development company to develop the app and integrate it with a portable accessory (which would be attached to iOS devices and allow to take professional quality pictures). VolgoTechnologies was briefed to develop the app in close cooperation with the Client s team of developers and perform complete functional testing of the end-product.

Project planning was the main challenge faced by VolgoTechnologies developers due to a strict dependency on the portable device that was created by a third party. Thus, VolgoTechnologies could develop and test only the features that were already supported by the tool. And since the development was still in progress, the Client s business needs and technical requirements changed regularly.

Solution

VolgoTechnologies team started off with the development of two independent applications. One was a UI application for streaming pictures from the iOS-device viewfinder. The other provided interaction between the iOS layers and the portable tool thanks to the MFi Program allowing to work with electronic accessories that connected to iOS devices. Consequently, the applications were merged into one, so that the team could focus on the integrity of the end-product. While the specification was constantly changing, VolgoTechnologies team worked along with the Client s team on several features of the ultimate tool.

Full set of shooting modes such as portrait, landscape, sports, burst and others, as well as exposure settings, namely aperture, shutter speed and ISO.

Staging

Data Ware House

Data Ware House

Desktop Application

Results

Cooperating with VolgoTechnologies, the Client delivered an innovative image processing solution for iOS devices. The product saw several releases and was awarded as an innovative image processing solution.

Technologies and Tools

iOS native development: Core Data, Core Image, Core Motion, Photos, Quartz Core, External Accessory, AV Foundation, Media Player, CFNetwork.