Q3 builds a software application that provides various features on the iPhone such as embedding Twitter/Facebook, downloading & playing of songs and radio programs on the iPhone.

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Company Profile

The Client provides web hosting and web services for small- and medium-sized businesses worldwide looking to build, manage, promote and profit from an online presence. The company, which offers domain registration, web site hosting, e-commerce tools, merchant services, application hosting, online marketing, site optimization services, and web site design, is also famous for the speed and effectiveness of its customer support. Client is the 5th largest web site hosting company worldwide and now has 500,000 customer accounts in over 100 countries.

Business Situation

The Client had an objective of stimulating online music on the iPhone with an aim to add a functionality that would enable users to download and play music on iPhone. The Client wanted a rich User Interface (UI) with strong look and feel and also wanted to embed Twitter and Facebook on it.

The Client had an objective of stimulating online live Radio on the iPhone with an aim to add a functionality that would enable users to download and play music files on iPhone. The Client wanted a customized User Interface (UI) with strong look and feel and also wanted to embed Twitter and Facebook on it.

Challenges

The challenges were to:

• Study the specifications given by the Client.
• Embed Twitter and Facebook on iPhone.
• Download songs from the web site to iPhone. JSON APIs were used for this purpose.

Technical Solution

Q3 came up with a dedicated team of developers and QA experts to bring up a technical solution for Client's requirements. The team analyzed the requirements and designed the application as per Client's requirements to ensure that all needs and objectives are covered.

• The application allowed users to download the music on iPhone and play it back
• The application broadcasts images and song related information to the user
• It is equipped with dancing bars that enhance the look and feel of the application. It has a very rich User Interface (UI) with lots of custom controls in the application
• The application also embeds Twitter/Facebook in iPhone. The application allows the user to listen to online music programs and download songs from a website and play them on iPhone
• For downloading songs, JSON APIs were used to request the server for getting the sound data
• Media libraries were initialized to use downloaded songs buffer to play. User Interface Web view control was used to provide connectivity to Twitter and Facebook on iPhone

• Objective C
• X Code 3.0
• iPhone sdk 3.0
• Interface Builder
• COCOA/ObjC2
• JSON
• iPhone OS version 3.0

Benefits

• The Client gained more popularity and trust of its customers.
• The Client earned huge profits with the creation of new software.
• Number of customers increased with the embedding of Twitter and Facebook on iPhone.