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Disposable Camera App Development
Super Shot 24 is a disposable camera app that provides a user with a retro-style experience.This photography app enables a user to take 12 or 24 (+3 bonus) pictures just like a virtual film camera. The clicked pictures are seen after getting them printed via Walgreens.
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Abstract of Super Shot 24
This virtual film camera app provides a vintage-style experience. Navigating the app using the car keys, realistic sound effects, animations, and retro texture brings the users back to the 90s. The interactive experience and UI of this app are similar to the old-school disposable camera.
In fact, the UI of this app has a departmental store theme where a user needs to purchase a camera from the store. Place it on the conveyor belt and check out to get started. Choose from a free 12-shot camera and a 99-cent 24-shot camera (need to purchase through in-app) that includes 3 bonus shots. A user can purchase a max of 1 free 12 shots camera roll or 24 shots at a time.
Client’s Requirements
Our client has his own design firm based in the USA. Being an entrepreneur, he enjoys bridging the gaps between real-world behaviors and digital solutions. With this mindset, he looked to create a virtual film camera app replicating a real-world’s experience from the 80s and 90s.
The client had the UI/UX of the mobile app ready, and he just wanted us to convert his design into code. The client’s core focus was to provide the retro user experience with specific hand-written fonts and sounds. In addition, he wanted to develop an app on both platforms (Android and iOS).
The client found us on Upwork while looking for the best app development company. Since we have a 99% success ratio on Upwork, it was easy for the client to choose us. Later, the client also discovered our experience in developing photography apps, which gave him the confidence to go further with us.
Solution We Offered To Our Client
When we communicated with the client, he explained his goal to build an app that provides the vintage experience of snapping and printing a camera film. He contacted us with the specifications and features he looked to integrate.
Since our client wanted to develop an app on both the platform, Android and iOS, we used React Native to maximize code reusability, provide a simple user interface, and native-like performance.
To get the camera, we have integrated the real purchase flow of the store (picking up a camera and putting it on a conveyor belt). To capture the shots, the user has to wind three times.
Once the camera shows green light, a user can capture the pic. Even the camera indicates the number of pics captured (remaining films).
When all the films have been utilized, a user will get a form with specific hand-written fonts to submit the pictures to Walgreens. Selfie can be captured by flipping a camera from down to up in a horizontal view.
Once the form is filled and submitted, the app will ask a user to choose the store location which is convenient to pick up the prints. For the form submission and location, we have used Walgreens API so that Walgreens can easily fetch the customer’s information.
Challenges
While developing this app, we faced some minor challenges. However, we successfully resolved all the challenges before the project deadline. The challenge we faced while developing this app is as follows:
Every time to snap different pictures, a user has to go inside the application and select the camera; this is quite time-consuming. So to resolve this challenge, we developed a widget for the app screen. A user has just had to open the widget and click the picture.
The application is developed in React Native, but React Native doesn’t support the widget. So, we developed a widget in native. For iOS, we used Swift, and for Android, we used Kotlin language.
Data syncing between native programming language code (e.g., swift for iOS and Kotlin for Android) and React Native data code was yet another challenge. When the widget was opened from the mobile screen, the app didn’t show the number of pictures left to click.
For instance: After clicking 8 photos, the app didn’t show 4 images that were left to click in 12 print cameras. Since, with React Native, the data is stored in a local database.
However, our mobile app developers resolved this issue through targeted research and extensive efforts to keep everything in sync.
Features of Super Shot 24
Widget Support
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Enables to Live in Present Moment
Super Shot 24 doesn’t allow users to edit, filter, or caption the images. This removes the pressure and stress to refine them. It works on “what click is what you get”; this enables the users to enjoy the present moment.
Retro-style Experience
Retain the experience of old roll films that have been discontinued. This app provides a vintage experience without having to experience the analog camera. Viewing photos on a phone provides a 1992 classic Mac OS look and experience.
Safe Photo Transfer
Get the photos printed safely. Once a user has completed clicking 12 photos or 27 photos, it needs to be submitted to Walgreens. When submitted, Walgreens takes up the necessary information and gets the photos printed in just an hour.
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