Family Organizer App Development

While implementing the initial idea of the client’s platform, we decided to focus our solution on communication within dedicated user groups, such as family members, friends, and other social groups with the ability to chat, share files, and create various events for participants in every group.

Basic functionality

We started development by creating the registration and login forms. New users could register and then log in by their phone numbers. Already registered users got to the home screen, while unregistered users got an offer to join the app community. Registered users could fill and edit their profiles, as well as choose a privacy level with the ability to show their personal data to certain user groups. To implement registration and login forms, our team used UIKit, URLSession, Keychain, etc.

Further, our team used WebSocket, RealmSwift, GSON, and other development tools and frameworks to implement the chat functionality, as well as furnish offline access to these chats using the Realm database. We also provided users with the ability to share media files, including images, videos, and text documents within dedicated chats.

At the next stage, we provided users with the ability to create events within chat groups and edit them by setting a description, date, image, and reminder. We also synced reminders with a standard calendar on users’ devices in addition to in-app notifications. Users could look through all events on a dedicated tab with several view options, including agenda view, sorting by importance, and sorting by date. To implement the event function, we used EventKit, WebSockets, URLSession, remote and local push notifications, as well as Realm database to view events offline.

Additional functionality

As a part of our software development services for startups, when implementing the basic functionality and tracking tasks on daily meetings, the client decided to add several additional features extending the main family manager app functionality.

Thus, as one of the additional options, we added a specific pinboard tab with the ability to pin messages from the chat, images, videos, and other pins to it. Users could create pinboards and share them with different groups of users, for example, within a specific chat. To implement this feature, our team used UIKit, REST API, PhotoKit, and Realm database to store pinboards and provide offline access to them.

The last but not least option we decided to add as an extension for our family manager software was the to-do lists feature. We created a dedicated tab where users could create tasks, compile them into lists, and assign these tasks to other users. Settings of this tab provided users with the ability to specify the time and date, the execution mark, and the repeat period at certain intervals. To assure the correct running of the repeat period, our team wrote and implemented its own algorithm. We also used the Realm database for offline access to the listings.