iPhone Application Development

The challenge

Business requirement

• Build an iPhone app for employee self-service time management
• Let managers track the movements of mobile employees on the move during business hours
• Manage communication between managers and employees about last-minute changes and shift reassignments

What we delivered

Key features

• Real-time location tracking and reporting
• Instant updates and tracking of manager–employee communications
• Supervisors schedule employees’ tasks from their phones
• App wakes up 1 hour before the scheduled work hour and sleeps when the shift ends

Technology

• iOS 8
• MapKit
• Apple Push Notification service (APNs)
• Barcoding