NowNow
iOS and Android video messaging application
Released
2017
Keywords
React Native, ES6, Sails, iOS, Android, SMS, Push notifications
Contribution
I planned and developed a iOS and Android video messaging application, NowNow, for my client Treehouse Laboratories. My client sought a way to efficiently build a multi-platform mobile application.
The application is built using React Native with several community built modules. The back end was built using Node and the SailsJs framework – allowing the client and server side to share common JS code. The data model was built using Sails’ ORM for rapid iteration.
App features include:
- OAuth registration and login
- Phone number verification via Amazon SNS
- Amazon S3 storage for media
- Friend relations and invite capability
- Video messaging (send & receive)
- Push notifications via Amazon SNS
- User profile photos
Extensive research and testing was done from the beginning, ensuring React Native and its community modules could support the application requirements.
The client and sever side are both written in JavaScript providing code portability across the stack.
Amazon Web Services backed infrastructure for hosting (EC2, S3) and SMS and push notification delivery (SNS).