CashChat
A chat app for sharing interest and experience
CashChat connects people from various areas and lets them exchange their knowledge.
11 months
Mobile Chat App
Mobile App Development
iOS
Chat
Users communicate with each other to share their expertise with others.
Filters
You can set up filters for people you want to talk to: gender, age, interests.
Location radius
Define the location you want to find people in - from a small town to the whole country.
In-app currency
Choose how many in-app coins the message will cost and earn real money for your knowledge.
About
Project Idea
The client wanted to create a unique chat application for people with experience in various areas to share it with each other.
Team
Three designers
Project manager
Two QA specialists
iOS engineer
Wireframes
The app is made simple and intuitive for users to easily find mentors and chat with them.
Technology Stack
Challenges and Solutions
During the development, we faced some small yet interesting challenges.
Working with Core Data
Problem:
It consisted of the fact that you could have users in the contact list but not in the chat list. As it turned out, the whole problem was that it was necessary to configure the search parameters and restrictions in Core Data so that the requested information is displayed correctly.
Solution:
All this is fixed easily, with the help of settings, but it was vital to understand what the problem was in the first place.
Unstable mobile network
Problem:
The difficulty was that Twilio itself works fine, while the status of establishing synchronization may hang. It means that the user can not do anything in the chat, neither sending nor receiving. And for everything to work again, the user would have to restart the application. We didn’t want this to be the case.
Solution:
To get around it, we decided to register the logic manually inside the application in case Wi-Fi goes missing or synchronization is not set. When this happens, the application will restart the Twilio Chat Client without the user having to force the process.
