Nearby Now for iPhone
Highlights
Nearby Now for iPhone is the service professionals companion iPhone app for Nearby Now - the exciting and easy way for contractors to build social proof, extend their local reach, and be discovered by customers who need their services.
As a .net programmer, I had to venture into objective-c land for the first time professionally. I've dabbled with objective-c it before but I settled on using MonoTouch rather than objective-c. This time around I wanted to write the application in it's native language so I went for it.
The app uses the NearbyNow Resftul API that Barry Harkness built for data and also the Twilio API to allow service professionals to send customers survey requests via SMS.
You can read about the Android version of this app on my Nearby Now for Android Tekfolio.
Using Nearby Now for iPhone allows service professionals to
Advertise Your Location to Nearby
Customers Build Your Real-time Service Area
Get Local Reviews from Your Happy Customers
Open Source
I'm using several open-source technologies with NearbyNow:
- Most icons are from glyphish
- UITableView PullToRefresh from Leah Culver
- UITableView Gradient Backgrounds from Matt Coneybeare
Tools
- TestFlightApp for beta testing
- apigee for API testing
Featured on TUAW's Daily iPhone App
Hats
developer
designer
Technologies
.net
mvc
objective-c
sql-server
Assets
Example of the Recent Checkins UITable View, the Checkin MapView, and the service Area MapView. The service area MapView was really fun to create. It takes a ton of checkin data from the 
NearbyNow API and uses it to draw transparent polygon overlays on top of the map.
Another neat feature is the Checkin Detail View. From this view, you can tap to get directions from your current location, to the checkin. Also, you can send a customer a survey request via email or SMS (via 
Twilio API)